arthel: democracy 2020, today in nevada democrats making a final push before the state caucuses get underway one hour from right now at a critical moment for the democratic party. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm arthel neville. eric: hello, arthel, hello, everyone, thank you for joining us this afternoon, i'm eric sean, democrats as you know are looking for nevada to front runner the race as top-tier candidates campaign across the state, they are seek august decisive win ahead of south carolina primary, that is one week from today, then, of course, the big enchilada which is big super tuesday a week, a couple of days from now. >> go out and bring our friends

and neighbors, let's have the largest voter turnout in the history of the nevada caucus. [cheers and applause] >> character of the nation is on the ballot right now, the character of america is on the ballot, it's not just about the democratic party anymore. >> so you want to understand every time somebody tells you a woman can't beat donald trump, well, i don't know about a woman but i will tell you elizabeth warren can beat donald trump. [cheers and applause] eric: very latest fox news team coverage jacqui heinrich covers the biden campaign and mark meredith tracking efforts to keep nevada caucus from depeting disaster in iowa, first let's begin with griff jenkins live in caucus site in henderson, nevada. >> nevada made history with first ever early voting, nearly 75,000 voters and let me give you a look inside liberty high school in just about an hour you will see many of the voters begin their caucusing, this is

the official registration, these are voters, checking in, the doors opened an hour ago and now from an hour from now they will begin their caucusing gathering their traditional areas an they'll have two alignments here, it's been active this morning, a lot of people turning out, we will see what sort of total vote they get, do i want to bring someone right now, that's jennifer webb cook, the site leader here, first of all, tell us how you're feeling the eyes to have nation are on you today? >> i feel wonderful. i think that the temporary chairs and the permanent chairs are doing an excellent job and we will get through this and we are not going to have the problems that iowa had. >> that's really important and what serve wondering, you scrapped the app and you scrapped what was going to be a google thing, how will you tappulate the results? >> we will tabulate the results,

we have huge flyers that we have on the wall where we are going to write it out, we are going to use a plain calculator and calculate the delegates and everything else. >> and then with those results, they'll take about 2 or 3 hours to caucus, is it phone it in or the process? >> we have to phone it in or either take pictures of it and send it in to the democratic headquarters here. >> i mentioned at the beginning here that you'd have historic early voting, do you think there's a chance you have record turnout here? >> i'm not quite sure, from the people that we just had, we had maybe 200 -- over 200, maybe 300 people, but the turnout for early voting was fantastic, 70,000 voters for early voting, we didn't have 70,000 for the last voting, you know, so this is -- it's turned out great but i anticipate we will get more people as they get off of their workdays.

>> do you think that early voting, very quickly will help ease the stress of the caucus? >> it will, it has eased it and we just got our numbers in for early voting, so those would be added, tabulated along with our numbers that we have today. >> ms. webb cook, thank you very much, we know that you're very busy, that's the situation here, we will keep an eye on it and report back to you as things develop. >> all right, griff, thanks so much. arthel. arthel: meanwhile former vice president joe biden looking to appeal to african-american and latino voters in nevada to give his campaign a much-needed boost after struggling in iowa and new hampshire. jacqui heinrich life from the caucus site in vegas, how did you get that one, ms. jacqui? hi. >> hey, arthel, looking for union support, if you listen for campaign speeches, he talks about america was built by

middle class and union workers made that possible when union movements stood up for workers' rights, nevada's workforce is nearly 15% union workers, that's quite a bit more than the national average which is around 10% and nevada is consistently been at or above the u.s. average since 198 when the u.s. labor of statistics tracked rates. the powerful culinary union declined to endorse candidate and their support coveted because member is 15% latino and latinos make up nearly a third of nevada's population, now if biden doesn't do well it can test fire wall support from black voters, the first two voting states and new hampshire he didn't even meet the threshold for delegates, he's been emphasizing the voting states, he expect different

results with diverse electorate, biggest task is taking the other candidates down a few pegs, he took shots at senator bernie sanders and michael bloomberg. [laughter] [cheers and applause] we are all taking a real good look, they are not bad folks, they are just not democrats. >> now, another reason that biden needs to do well here is his fundraising, he started this month with significantly less money in his coffers than senator bernie sanders and slightly more than pete buttigieg. arthel: stakes are high in nevada, jacqui heinrich, thank you. eric: after victory in new hampshire senator bernie sanders now looking for more than a repeat, but he hopes a clear-cut victory in nevada, he's deploying thousands of volunteer and aides to the state there

today, the candidate himself continues to go out on campaign trail, he went to california and next comes texas, he has a rally there later on today early voting is underway, casey steagel, live outside, in 2 hours from now he should be there? >> yeah, eric, about 2 and a half hours away in fact, from bernie sanders addressing his supporters here in el paso, i'm going to hop out of the way and let you take a live look because we are still in advance of it beginning but you can already see how long the line is to get in to the el paso convention center, you know, he's already had big crowds here in texas, by the way, ahead of nevada, he stocked up -- stopped in the dallas area 5,000 people came to rally on valentine's day and mesquite, texas, recent polling shows support in the lone star state growing and mirroring much of what we are seeing with the

national polls, so they have loaded up his schedule in the lone star state, el paso this afternoon, san antonio this evening as a rally will be held there and then, of course, the nevada caucuses and the results start coming in, then it's off to houston and austin tomorrow, but before leaving nevada, he sure lodged a few grenades at president trump and character in particular, listen. >> we cannot continue to have a president who is a racist, we've had too much racism in this country, we cannot continue to have a president who is a sexist, who is a homophobe, who is a xenophobe, who is a religious bigot, and then he has some really bad qualities.

>> pretty strong words there, we will see if the messaging translates here in ruby-red texas where trump continues to poll well, though data suggests pockets of the state in and around larger metro areas are shifting blue, however, but early-voting is well underway in texas, it has been for the last 4 days, still a week of that to go, so analysts say that's why it's extremely smart to be hitting texas right now considering that half of texas registered voters vote early, so more than 50% or roughly 50% would have already cast their ballots before the polls even open on super tuesday, so right now a chance to get undecided voters and people that are making decisions now and that's why we saw his schedule fill up so quickly and he's really covering a lot of ground here in texas, hoping it pays off a lot of delegates here as you well know eric. eric: certainly seems like a smart strategy, casey, thank

you. arthel. arthel: they voted early in nevada, democrats there are facing an important test hoping to avoid a repeat of the chaos in iowa, mark meredith is tracking that story for us and he's live in las vegas, mark. >> arthel, good morning, that's right, nevada democrats know they have so much on the line today with their caucus in the wake of what you were just talking about, what we saw in iowa, something that many people say it was a disaster of what was run a couple of weeks ago, democrats say they have tried to change game plan a little bit going into today, as you mentioned there was a chance for people to do early caucusing and some 75,000 people are believed to have turned out over 4-day period to make their preferences known, that could impact how quickly we see the results turned around later on this afternoon or into this evening, but it'll be interesting to say the bigger the turnout that could impact how those results get turned out. >> it looks very clear to me like we will have more people who in total who will participate in the caucuses,

that's going to have an impact, the dnc's requirements for reporting are also different, they are more complicated, that takes a little more time. >> that's one thing we heard over and over again, patience, the security agency tweeted out today, if you're participating in the caucus, remember that the dems are the best source for their caucus info and results, caucus results can take time to report but accuracy is more important than timelessness of releasing results and that was interesting because, of course, the results trickled in out of iowa so they -- the government right there saying that this is something that will take a little bit of time. now the democratic party here in nevada they set up a hotline for people to call in in case they have any questions and e-mail to address voters' concerns, where we are, arthel, this is interesting, like the media row, you see the blue screen behind me, the results will be projected. we had a chance to talk with party officials that here at the rio hotel in las vegas, so far smooth sailing and hoping for that to continue throughout the

day. arthel: with the big blue screen behind you and things go well you'll be able to report numbers for us in realtime and hopefully they'll get it right this time. thank you, mark meredith. >> that's right. eric: meanwhile former mayor city michael bloomberg not in ballot in nevada but multimillion dollar ad libs who are not aimed at democratic rivals but at president trump. peter doocy is live in las vegas on the strip with the very latest, hi, peter. >> eric, a few days after elizabeth warren accused michael bloomberg of having dozens of different women sign nondisclosure agreements to settle complaints the bloomberg campaign said they out there were 3 nda. >> we have a very few nondisclosure agreements. >> how many is that? >> none of them accuse me of

doing anything other than maybe they didn't like a joke i told. >> and all 3 of those women are free to talk, bloomberg said in a statement if any of them want to be released from nda's they can talk about allegations, they should contact the company and they'll be given a release but warren still not satisfied. >> michael bloomberg needs to do a blanket release so that all women who have been muzzled by nondisclosure agreements can step up and tell their side of the story. >> bloomberg campaign now making accusations of their own after offices were vandalized in salt lake city and knoxville, the tennessee incident is being blamed on them on bernie sanders without any evidence the bloomberg campaign manager said this, the latest incident at knoxville campaign office is

exactly what we have been warning about, we don't know who is responsible for the vandalism but we do know it echos language from the sanders campaign and supporters, bloomberg not on the ballot here in nevada but this is a place where weather might wind up being an issue, it's been a little bit rainy earlier today and i spoke to an official from the bernie sanders campaign they think the rain helps them unlike other campaigns, their supporters would show up in a fire storm, eric. eric: interesting the bloomberg folks talking to so-called bernie bros, hopefully they get to the bottom of it, peter, thank you. you can keep it right here on fox news channel throughout the rest of the afternoon, our special nevada caucus continues, it'll be anchored by bret baier start less than 2 hours from now at 4:00 p.m. iron, we will, of course, bring you the very latest caucus results as they all come in with the expert analysis that you expect and we give you here at the fox news channel. arthel: bret will join us at 3:00 p.m. eastern, we are

looking forward to that and as we await the polls to open there in nevada from less than an hour from now, we will look at into how the democratic party there, how they are trying to avoid of the repeat of the chaos in the iowa caucus, that kicks off earlier, you remember that one, stick around, more after this. >> i think we will do well, it depends on how thoroughly the process works as a struggling actor,

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♪ >> i hear their computers are all messed up just like they were in iowa. how are they doing in iowa? was that 2 weeks ago? they said we are getting close. they're not getting close. they'll never know. they'll never know but i hear the same thing could happen, i hope it doesn't actually, i hope it doesn't. eric: president trump, of course, at rally in las vegas yesterday predicting chaos in the nevada democratic caucuses today, but the caucus chairs there plan to log results to a page phone bank run by professional telemarketing firm, they're not relying on the volunteer phone bank that rattled the iowa vote. >> i think we will have no problems, everything is going to run smoothly, you know, when saturday comes and when they finish everything, i think it should be done by that day. eric: if it does run smoothly what can we expect, we expect results to come in 90 minutes from now. john bussey, fox news

contributor, 2 hours or so, what type of factors, what should we be looking for as the results to have caucuses come? >> whether bernie sanders manages to maintain what looks to be an early lead in the caucuses, you're going into this, but it's kind of a question mark, we really don't know yet but he's, you know, had been doing pretty well in the polls, mind you iowa and new hampshire are fairly election pools, voter pools, this is a much more diverse audience, it'll likely signal which candidates will do better in places like california and south carolina as well, it's very important, nevada is bit more of a bellwether than either iowa or new hampshire. eric: you'll be hearing that from joe biden talking about it, look, las vegas itself is almost 30% latino, 10% african american, almost 10% asian american so the folks in nevada are saying they really echo and reflect the broader composition of the united states more than

as you just pointed out iowa and new hampshire. >> that's right, that demographic kind of facts that you just underscored, you know, show what's happened to nevada over last 30, 40 years, the las vegas area is heavily urbanized, very urbanized state, one of the most urbanized in the nation even though it has a lot of empty space in it, you see big influx of latin american immigrants into nevada, african americans, asians, it's diverse, you've also seen immigrants out of california trying to get away from higher taxes and maybe just the lifestyle of some other urban settings, settling in nevada and changing not just the demographic profile but the political profile of nevada to more democrat, and that's why it's going to be interesting to watch how the candidates who are playing to a more diverse audience, how they play in nevada. eric: man, oh man, drive 25

minutes south away from the strip and you have wide open spaces. in terms of sanders, let's talk about him for a moment, they don't want that because they have such great union coverage, could that dick him and so who could be number 2? >> yeah, he's fighting two things, the workers did express concern about his plan, you know, they see it as, you know, one supplanting what they feel is better health care that they have negotiated for over years, remember, pretty good union strength in nevada, not in all state bus in nevada because of the consolidation of casino industry, they also didn't like the fact that they felt that some of bernie sanders' supporters were harassing them for disagreement with the senator over that medicare for all plan, so that might hurt him in this in which case who comes up second, is it buttigieg, is

it biden or klobuchar in the sort of centrist lane of the democratic candidate pool or is it elizabeth warren, somebody who is fighting for the progressive lead, fighting bernie sanders for that. eric: you would think you help the man you sigh on the screen, joe biden, more, if joe biden was to come number 2, come in number 3, that spells trouble for him and leading to south carolina next week? >> it could or maybe not. we just don't know and the african-american vote in south carolina is very important and has been behind biden up until now, the early states are smaller, we don't know necessarily, we probably shouldn't extrapolate too far, helps with fundraising but we shouldn't extrapolate too far, we should wait for early march in super tuesday where a number of states will be voting including california, there you will get a much better sense of where the nation as a whole is leaning, moderate or

progressive. >> john, quickly, what are you putting your chips on? >> well, we don't do that at the wall street journal. [laughter] >> you know, it really is hard to say and i think that we -- it's probably best to reserve judgment until super tuesday, i think that these early states are indicators of a particular demographic profile in the united states. some diverse, some much more white, remember, it's a -- a accumulation of the profiles that make the ultimate voter pool in the united states, so you have to be careful of drawing too much of a judgment from any particular state's vote, when you get to super tuesday it's a different story, you'll get a much bigger slice of the full pie. eric: all right, john, okay, admire that and we will go to vegas together and see if it holds up. >> that's a different story. arthel: whatever you do there you keep it there. [laughter] arthel: switching gears now, new surge of the coronavirus

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watchdog is ramping up pressure on tehran. voting to keep iran on its blacklist for failing to crack-down on terrorism financing. you know the move extends international sanctions further streaming iran's trouble economy, secretary of state mike pompeo praised the decision saying, quote, the regime needs to adhere to basic standards that virtually every other country in the world agrees to. iran must cease behavior and seek normal behavioral if it wants isolation to end. dan, do you think iran can really ever act like a normal nation? >> i don't think that this iranian regime will likely ever do that, i think this was an important decision, there's 39 nations, members of the financial action task force, they are partnering together to maintain the integrity of financial system and recognize that iran continues to be heaven for money laundering and

terrorism financing. eric: you mentioned the group, financial action task force, they are based in paris and seems to be encouraging, do you think the europeans are finally getting it, they will not let tehran off the hook, they see the type of behavior and support of terrorism around the globe that are responsible for and they've had enough? >> well, i think the building global coalition against iran is still a work in progress, two of the members of the financial action task force russia and china i think will be watching them closely to see whether they actually continue to implement the measures which are really going to reduce dwindling number of banks and financial institutions really from doing any business whatsoever with iran, it's a positive development but remember our european partners are still

interested in reviving that failed iran nuclear deal and have been against applying maximum pressure, positive step for sure but it's still a work-in progress for talented team lead by secretary top into. eric: how effective do you think can be and tehran expected to try to get around it? >> well, i think it's pretty effective and we will get a chance to see how effective as the election results come in from iran's parliamentary elections where roughly reportedly half of the 16,000 candidates were barred by the iranian guardian council from even participating, they've also been significant protests on the streets in iran, iranians who were upset and concerned about the corruption in their country and overseas adventures and support of proxy militant and terrorist groups like hezbollah. iran is state sponsored of terrorism and we shouldn't be too surprise that continues to be blacklisted since 2008. but i think that the question is

where do we take this in terms of some diplomatic if possible solution. >> well, you just mentioned the election, it's clear that the regime has put the fix in, that's being criticize bid the resistance, opposition, the largest group is the national council of resistance of iran headed by miriam russia who is denouncing that what the regime did and mrs. rojavi, her group had a following statement about what the paris group said, quote, the decision of rule in iran is extremely necessary and long overdue, terrorism and warmongering are indispensable to regime and critical to survival, lit never abandon financing terrorism and money laundering, the international community must seek offer assistance to and refrain from engaging in any financial transactions with the regime and should standby the iranian people in aspirations for regime

change, how does or should the trump administration, how does freedom loving democracy who cherish and value human rights do that? >> first the point about the parliamentary election, the key number of there is how many people actually vote and i think the people of iran are showing their displeasure with iran's corrupt politics by simply not showing up to vote, so i think that's something that we will be tracking and as far as, you know, where we go from here, i think it's a very clear choice for the iranian people, iran has a choice, they can be part of community of nations an open up their economy to all the benefits that the iranian people deserve but they need to stop being a state sponsored of terrorism and they need to stop supporting the proxy militants in iraq that attacked embassy and hezbollah and denying their citizens basic human rights, it's becoming a clear choice for the people and we are seeing the dissatisfaction from the people, protests that are as large now

as they've been since the that is movement in 2009. eric: that's a great point, dan, they are voting by not voting, not showing up and certainly so well said. dan hoffman, good to see you, dan, as always. >> you too. eric: of course. arthel: the number of confirmed coronavirus in the u.s. now up to 35 as concerns grow the virus maybe undetected or unreported in other countries where screening protocols may be lacking, more than 2300 people have died in the outbreak with at least 78,000 individual cases reported worldwide. christina coleman following the story from west coast news room, what more can you tell us? >> arthel, as of today more than 1200 cases of the virus outside of china including infections in italy, iran and south korea, covert 19 has spread to 28 countries so far. >> the cases we see in the rest

of the world although the numbers are small, but not linked to china, it's very worrisome. >> today south korea reported an 8 fold jump, many new cases are linked to a church and hospital in and around the fourth largest city, samsung temporarily shut down factory after worker was diagnosed of virus, makes the country with the highest death toll so far outside of china and in northern italy today, dozens of towns went into lockdown after 2 people there died from the virus, the world health organization is worried about tracking down the source of the disease in different places as it emerges in different countries. >> although the window of opportunity is not willing to contain the outbreak, we still have a chance to contain it, but

while doing that we have to prepare at the same time for any because the outbreak can go any direction, it can even be messy. >> today dozens of british and european passengers quarantine and have to go under further quarantine, 8 americans have been diagnosed with covert 19. 23 passengers have been mistakenly cleared to leave the vessel without taking recent test for the virus, the world health organization says more infections are expected and officials in african countries with already strain systems are braising for that even though egypt has had the only confirmed case of coronavirus in africa so far. arthel. arthel: kristina coleman thank you very much for the update, eric. eric: it is caucus day in nevada, 36 pledged delegates are up for grabs, coming up we will

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caucus work toaster sign nondisparagement agreements that prohibit election volunteers from saying anything that might harm the party's reputation, that doesn't seem like something that should stay in vegas, don't you think that nevadans and americans have a right to know what is going on behind the scenes? >> well, that's interesting because we all know now what the nda's are all about, thanks to elizabeth warren and mike bloomberg and the debate -- democratic debate wednesday night, there's a lot of pressure not to have your employees sign those nda's but it's been difficult to get information out of nevada democratic party here. everyone is jittery, they do not want to repeat performance as they had in iowa debacle and abandoned the app, they were going to use the same app as the iowa app that cause sod many problems, they abandoned it in recent forms the google form and now they are back to telephone process and i talked to precinct

at bernie sanders rally and they were jittery and nervous about what was going to happen today. arthel: we will find out about the nondisparagement agreement that is they had to sign, meanwhile the show must go on, caucus is getting started in under 15 minutes, at this point who is the sure bet to win in nevada or are all bets off? >> well, i think bernie sanders has got to lose, he's up in the polls by 16 points around 32% according to real clear average of polls and the other candidates, the more moderate lane is very crowded, all of them have 15 or 16%, that would be pete buttigieg, joe biden and elizabeth warren is in the mix although she's not part of the moderate lane. but klobuchar had fallen a little bit, it's really bernie sanders to lose and last night at his rally he sounded confident and supporters were so happy that they were now in

victory position when they felt like outliers for so long? arthel: you, you can't take anything for granted at this point, factoring in the rural population that i mentioned at the start of the segment, who took the better political gamble going into nevada? >> well, bernie sanders had that liberal lane because elizabeth warren had fallen a bit, the other candidates, democratic, the state has been trending democratic in recent years, you have a lot of union workers here, miners, retirees and you're seeing that play out in 2016 it was more of a battleground, trump -- trump lost it just by 2 percentage points for to hillary clinton but now you see since 2008 there's been 165,000 more registered democrats and the state is trending becoming a democratic hot bed and i think that's benefiting bernie sanders. arthel: that's driven by the nevada culinary union and he had

dust up with them, they were concerned that his medicare for all would end their current healthcare system, so we will see how their plans, see how that goes in the end for bernie sanders there. win or lose, susan with all the candidates, will all of the candidates there still have a shot in south carolina or is nevada do or die for any of them? >> i think that south carolina will be much more interesting, you have joe biden, it was supposed to be fire wall, supporters, minority supporters and black americans were going to support him there and he has -- that's really fallen, only 4% lead to bernie sanders and the other candidates are all hoovering around right after that, i think that that's really going to be much more interesting and then we have california and super tuesday where bernie sanders is also up by 14 percentage points and looks like bernie sanders is

consolidating front-runner status. arthel: nevada is important but it doesn't necessarily will be a foreshadowing of what's to come in this race as the democratic race for the white house rolls on. >> that's right, arthel. arthel: all right. okay, guess what, you are having me in the segment right on time, so i'm going to take that, that out and go for it and tell you thank you very much, susan crabtree, i look forward speaking with you again throughout the process. >> great to be with you, arthel. arthel: like wise. eric: i like that, senator bernie sanders, you know what he told vladimir putin, butt out, right after u.s. officials told campaign that russia is trying to interfere election to help him and president trump. >> the russians have been strive to go disrupt this election. we want to be vigilant enough to say to people, be ware of this.

eric: no reaction that russia is trying to interfere in 2020 election to help president trump and vermont senator bernie sanders, sanders responded with strong statement telling russian president vladimir putin to, quote, stay out.

lucas keeping track with all the new details, hi, lucas. >> hi, eric, didn't address the issue last night atlas vegas rally ahead of caucuses today but campaign issued the following statement, quote, my message so putin is clear, stay out of american elections and as president i will make sure that you do. in 2016 russia used internet propaganda so sow division in the country and my understanding is that they are doing it in 2020. a former top aide to hillary clinton told fox news earlier today russia is helping both the president and bernie sanders. >> they are protrump. well, first of all, they are prochaos, they saw what they did in 2016, worked so well, forget whether it helped donald trump or hurt hillary clinton, 3 years later we are still talking about it, they did that on cheap, they didn't send that much money. >> president trump responded to accusation in a tweet, quote, democrats in the great state of

nevada which because of the economy jobs, military an vetsly win in november, be careful of russia, russia, russia. according to corrupt politician adam schiff, they are pushing bernie sanders to win, vote. adam schiff responded a few hours later in a tweet, quote, mr. president, i didn't say that, but if you wish to quote me, quote this, quote the only thing americans despise more than foreign actors trying to affect the votes is a president unwilling to do anything to stop it. americans decide elections. also found it add that bernie sanders had known for a month they. >> trying to help him allegedly but decided to stay quiet, eric. arthel: the doors about to close as caucuses get underway in nevada, we are live from the battle-born state with complete coverage ahead. stay right where you are. ♪

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♪ ♪ arthel: jurors in the harvey weinstein trial indicate they are close to reaching a verdict, but they will have to keep deliberating when they return to court on monday. yesterday the jury asked if it's possible to reach a unanimous verdict on three counts while remaining deadlocked on the two most serious charges of predatory sexual assault. the defense says it was prepared to receive the partial verdict, but the judge ordered the jury to keep on working and to try to reach a decision on all of the

counts. weinstein is charged with sexually assaulting two women. he has pleaded not guilty. he could face up to life in prison if convicted. ♪ ♪ eric: well, starting now in nevada, the first in the west contest of the 2020 presidential campaign. it's getting underway right at this moment as 2020 presidential candidates are seeking gold in the silver state. hello, everyone, and welcome to "america's news headquarters," i'm eric shawn. arthel: i'm arthel neville. voters gathering across nevada, they're going to get their chance to weigh in on the 2020 candidates. caucuses officially starting right now as the candidates battle for support and make their case. >> the american people, regardless of their political vi