is very much a far from over so fredricka fredricka who we heard from in the report so he is the . the shadow behind over her shoulder as if. he tried and failed to become party leader so what's he's trying to do now what see after. well at least today when he came out on stage hit a high and to me he seems to be a lot more forgiving than usual quite complimentary say towards a.k.k. and even seemed to be making somewhat of a peace offering say in that the c.d.u. was loyal to its leader but observers here in life sick today many of them seem to think at least that he is simply by doing his time and that he will be back bigger than ever come 2020 when it comes to the c.d.u. making that decision as to who they are going to put forward as that chancellor candidate for the 2021 elections so he did also say that he wants to play a role in the future of the c.d.u. but didn't really expand on exactly what that role is so it's certainly very likely that we will see mat's once again throwing his hat into the ring to try and become the candidate for the c.d.u. those 2021 elections so how impo

fredricka whitfield is up next. >>> good morning, everyone, it's 11:00 on the east coast, i'm fredricka whitfield.st about three months away from the first in the nation caucus, but this weekend in iowa, it's do or die in the 2020 race. all of the remaining democratic candidates are crisscrossing the state hoping to swing voters and catapult their campaigns to the forefront, but the field is also shrinking. former congressman beto o'rourke announcing he will no longer pursue the presidency. he's telling supporters he couldn't raise enough money to remain competitive with his party's leading contenders. the latest poll has elizabeth warren leading the pack in iowa with senator bernie sanders, mayor pete buttigieg and former vice president joe biden rounding out the top tier. cnn's arlette saenz is on the trail in des moines, iowa, this morning. arlette, it's a pretty big weekend in the hawkeye state. how are they spending it? >> reporter: yeah, fred, it certainly is. last night there was that high-stakes dinner where you had most of the democratic field coming here making their pitch to iowa voters

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fredricka, the answer to that is unclear. we don't know why exactly the president is going after this employee, but it does fit a pattern that we have seen, fredrickant attacking members of his own administration who have gone forward to testify in this impeachment inquiry, branding them without any evidence as never trumpers. let's read the tweet first from the president. he said, tell jennifer williams, whoever that is, to read both transcripts of the presidential calls and see the just released statement from ukraine. then she should meet with the other never trumpers, who i don't know and mostly never even heard of, and work out a better presidential attack. the diplomat as well as the top official in ukraine, bill taylor, find that startling. this is startling that the president wants to go after a member of his own administration. vice president pence's assistant karen walterman, i asked her about her attacks on the president, and she said jennifer is a white house employee. jennifer is a state career officer, but she's detailed to the vice president's office like so many other foreign policy advisers. that makes her an adviser to the preside