think we all realize i was not the winner of the iowa caucus. lared the winner. if someone gets declared 16 days later isn't the winner of the iowa caucus. >> right. >> because it doesn't matter. one thing the democrats did right is not rush out and try to get a decision out when they knew the numbers were bad. so i give credit to the democrats for stepping back, getting the numbers out. i believe these numbers are probably right. they may change a little bit. as tom perez said, it's not. look, i understand how people want to get rid of caucuses. i think it's good things because tat rewards party activists, tells you where the passion is in the party as compared to these primaries. >> we can't keep flipping coins as to -- >> they have a dual caucus system and if the national party came out and said we're going to do away with your caucus system, a lot of people in the state of utah would have a big problem with that. right now we have a dual system. the states can kind of figure some of those things out. and they should. >> i'm going to pour wate

tonight all eyes on the hawkeye state, home to the much-anticipated iowa caucus. but tonight the unprecedented delay. no projections of a winner yet. the iowa democratic party saying the results are, quote, postponed due to quality checks, adding that they found inconsistencies in the reporting. we now go straight to abc's political director rick klein. rick, what are you learning tonight? >> reporter: byron, this is a complete meltdown of the voting process and of the reporting system. these are caucuses. a little different than regular elections. people gather in these rooms, then those results get tabulated in the rooms and then they get sent back to party headquarters. 1600 of these locations. that's where the problems started. the party had an app it had never used before. that didn't work in all cases. and what happened was some of the information wasn't getting sent or the party was noticing inconsistencies in that information. then some of these precinct people would try to call, call them up. they got busy signals. they weren't able to get through. they we

voters will caucus in iowa soon in the nation's firm democratic contest of 2020. candidates spent super bowl not only sunday but weekend making their final plays to win over caucus-goers nbc's vaughn hillyard is following the race for us from des moines and, vaughn, a lot at stake here today. >> reporter: after more than a year of campaigning for most of these candidates, it comes down to tonight the iowa caucus, where more than 200,000 iowans are expected to bea in, taking the first crack at determining the democrats' next nominee for president the iowa caucus. the first opportunity democrats will have to take a crack at determining who will take on president trump this november. >> i ask you commit today to caucus for me. >> are you guys caucusing tomorrow >> you bet. >> reporter: in what is still very much of a toss-up race. >> have you made up your mind? >> i have not. >> who do you think is going to win? >> um -- >> reporter: the candidates making their final pitches >> sometimes we may get the message that we got to choose between either a revolution or the s

biggest one-day gain in six years. >>> democratic are outraged with the delay of the results of the iowa caucus. >>> the democratic party of iowa says the results of its caucus will be released later today after a new reporting system led to serious delays in counting the result chair of the group said the issue was not due to a hack. adding the party is manually verifying the data to ensure accuracy joining us right in the heart of it all from iowa how much of a disaster is this >> quite a mess, i would say after all of the hype and leadup to the beginning of the 2020 election, this is certainly not the end any democrat here would have predicted it was a strange evening as the hours passed, the candidates and media waited for those highly anticipated numbers. after several hours passed, senator amy klobuchar was the first to come out and declare her own victory. she announced full steam ahead with her campaign. all of the other candidates followed suit giving some sort of previctory, victory speech. meanwhile, you've got the state democratic party here cram belling. they came out and said they

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iowa. what happened at that caucus. he head of the iowa democratic campaign. now, there's a call with the press. here's what he said. he said the integrity of our process, and the result always will be our top priority. at this point, he says, the idp there, demanding the numbers to report later today. we want to emphasize that this is a reporting issue. it's not a hack or intrusion issue. but they're not saying when they have the results later today. it's a reporting issue. >> i hope that there's a lot of conspiracy theories that are moving out there. i realize we're not getting this thing when we want it. something terrible happened. clearly, it failed. probably the reporting. i think we should pump the brakes a little bit. the conspiracy near ris. whether this happened. whether it gets intercepted. maybe it is this is 100% volunteer run system. maybe they didn't check to make sure this worked out completely. and unfortunately it's not happening the news hour we prefer. these will be honest. they will be accurate. and

so there's some new additions in this iowa caucus calculus that have caused some shake-up here today,at nbc news managed to obtain shows precinct captains and caucus organizers in the iowa city area apparently knew of problems with the app as early as monday morning. here are a few quotes we got our hands on. someone at 9:09 yesterday morning wrote, nobody having trouble with the app should feel dumb." four minutes later someone wrote "i gave up on the app, lots of people are having problems." what are they saying about these emails, if anything? >> reporter: what i can tell you is those emails are not isolated. they came from a precinct out of iowa city. i've spoken to lots of precinct chairs around the state here and one from page county out in western rural iowa told me the kind of same concerns. we heard from lots of precinct chairs across the state yesterday afternoon saying they were having trouble downloading the app or it was freezing or things like that. for those who could download the app told me that the instructions were kind of difficult and for those who are caucus chai

caucus day to win this thing. of course, surprises can happen in the iowa caucuses. of course yang and steyer rounding out these numbers. one stark divide could be important on caucus night. it's divide over age. monmouth took a pole in iowa. under 50 years old in the democratic side, sanders the runaway leader, nearly 40%. joe biden single digits, 39.7. if you jump all the way to the other end there, look at the contrast between the youngest and the oldest. if you go 65-plus, it's biden nearly at 40%. it's sanders back there in single digits. overall a close race between paid biden and sanders statewide. is this side going to show up more, is this side going to show up more? we always say turnout is the key. really when you see a divide like this, turnout is the key to this thing. the significance of the iowa caucuses, why are those so important? small state, not that diverse. why does iowa matter? certainly it hazms mattered in e recent past. four times you've had competitive iowa caucuses. all four times the winner of the iowa caucus has gone onto win the democrati

the road to the white house for us democrats candidates are readying to do battle in the state of iowa caucus vote proven influential in deciding who runs for president that counter this for a shot at the oval office socialist bernie sanders is leading the way in terms of donors and there's no joint from warner in the polls and the iowa caucus is the start of the primaries and usually a litmus test for what is to come bill and hillary clinton went all from victory in iowa to run as the democrats counter that is that barack obama on the head of the vote later this monday let's take a look at what the latest polls indicate outsider bernie some a surprising lead with former vice president joe biden who's leaving behind the other centrist hopefuls there are reports though why washington might be worried of a son district 3. the iowa caucuses are upon us and monday as the 1st primary contest takes place and jaws are dropping because the front runner isn't one of the sexy centrists favored by the d.n.c. but an elderly socialist from vermont too is technically not even a democrat but a registered in

veteran who's hosting tonight in iowa caucus watch party. did you expect a poll considering the golden standard of political polling isn't at this des moines register to suddenly be dropped like what's your take. of course i mean that everything that they've been trying to throw at bernie sanders to china push away from him and the lack of coverage that they've been doing until the polls start rising and really high numbers of course i mean i don't think it was a surprise i think few days ago press also released out over $700000.00 were poured into and to bernie sanders campaign ads and i have lines well so obviously the forces that be do not want bernie sanders just one more thing he's not a socialist he's the governor craddock socialist and i think people need to stop calling him socialist and. you know it isn't going to be a fair enough they new york times that was at least one complaint that doesn't sell enough significant do you think they really should have just worked there on any mistakes and on really still annoyance the result. yea

we are. >> watching it all from the white house, the one person who definitely did up with the iowa caucus on the republican side, president trump calling the iowa meltdown an unmitigated disaster this morning and frankly hoping his state of the union speech won't be. my sources say he's not going to hit impeachment hard tonight with one person telling me the president hopes by speaking past it he'll make the point he's working for the american people. that's ahead of tomorrow's final trial vote and at this point, just about the only suspense left is who can cross party lines. that's why we're watching the senate floor live right now this hour for a couple of key democrats and any hints they may drop about how they're leaning. you won't have to wait to see another senator and impeachment juror live here later in the show. we have got senator richard blumenthal along with mark short. but first, we're headed to the campaign trail. vaughn hillyard, mike memoli and ali vitali. vaughn, we just saw that statement in the last hour that frankly did not tell us much. right? when are we going to kno

the iowa caucus chaos roasted online so who won?ladelphia flyers mascot? carly shimkus with social media hot cake straight ahead. you try to stay ahead of the mess. but scrubbing still takes time. now there's new powerwash dish spray. it's the faster way to clean as you go. just spray, wipe and rinse. it cleans grease five times faster. new dawn powerwash. spray, wipe, rinse. shannon: harry truman, vladimir putin, jeb bush, twitter users picking a winner a run for the iowa caucuses since we don't have one yet. carly shimkus here with top picks from the people that matter. >> the meltdown in iowa sparking equal parts anger and laughter on social media. tom parrish with the brunt of the anger, with the hashtag resign on social media. some twitter users mocking the delays by declaring their own winner. this person has super bowl in the brain tweeting the kansas city chiefs have won the iowa caucus. the apps the tablet is the result is the big problem, the apps is saying vladimir putin won the iowa caucus and right here, philadelphia fl

coming out of iowa, how many delegates we have and how many does elisabeth have, and how many does pete buttigieg have and i think it is fair to say that we won the caucus. >> was there something specific, you talked about a multi- rational grassroots movement in iowa. either targeting certain communities or certain part of face that you anticipate doing again down the road and the other states printed. >> the whole part of what our campaign is about is to understand that in america we have one of the lowest voter turnout of any major place. the reason for that are many fold. one of them is a whole lot of working-class people, new hampshire and vermont and all of the country. they are working two and three jobs. they can't afford childcare, half of their income on housing. they can afford to send their kids to college. i was concerned about me. turn on the tv. is anybody worrying about me, that i am going to retire at 55. i don't have anything in the bank. and you're worried about me. or is it just the billionaires and the wealthy who determined what the czar in washington. a lot of those people say is nonsense. why would i want to waste my vote. the wh

ahead of the first results being released out of the iowa caucus from last night, that is expected butthat the chairman of the iowa state democratic party is expecting to come out and frank figliuzzi, i come back to you and see if you could stitch together what feels like desperate dots but the frez was just impeached by the house of representatives for trying to cheat in the 2020 election and the first contest in the democratic prime of 2020 is now as claire mccaskill and jason johnson said forever stained with an asterisk. what is the sort of role for law enforcement or for congress or for local officials in terms of right now, right now today reassuring the public's faith in the credibility of american elections? >> this is all about accurate, honest, candid messaging. it is crucial to get this right. even if it means that somebody at the state party level may have to announce they're resignation. we need people to come out -- and by the way, i've spent the morning talking with my contacts in various federal government agencies and the good news is there is absolutely no evidence th

presidential hopeful takes the lead in the democratic party's iowa caucus with the most votes counted after a long delay caused by technical difficulties. broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas we have a very interesting hour for you or a bulletin or rather the u.s. president is about to give his annual state of the union address to congress donald trump is expected to set out his agenda for the year and ask voters to give him a 2nd term in the white house. and this year's event coincides with the final stage of trump's impeachment trial on wednesday evening the senate is expected to deliver its verdict let's now cross live to our t. america's special coverage which is in progress. in the report about the city my book there's a lot of people that are all here when i would argue that a book of after that is you know one that you know i got a rug last year and some of that there was no i mean i think this is right there's no difference between bloomberg and trump i mean trump goes the system is rigged against us and he's broken i'm c

the iowa democratic party to release most of the iowa caucus tuesday.y 4:00 p.m. the iowa democratic party to release most of the results in just about five hours from now. that according to the iowa democratic party, the headline crossing the terminal. they said this morning they wanted to get these results out as quickly and efficiently and accu i am struck by this, because that is just a few ahead of president trump state of the union address. iowais not the caucus organizers had hoped for, is it? jamil: that is exactly right. they had hoped to get the results out last night as they have done for the last 30 years. ,t is a black eye for the party they are obviously very unhappy. they will try to get these out as fast as possible. they want to be accurate. the last thing they want is questions within the party about who was the winner, what does that mean for new hampshire and south carolina. it is still highly contested primary season. they are looking against a tough general election opponent, coming off what appears to be an impeachment victory. they want to

by the end of this thing have not hit 15 percent of the vote so the long delay in releasing the iowa caucus results has been hugely embarrassing for the democrats at least the democratic party there in iowa lot of it undermined the entire process do you see this as a significant setback for the party or can they move past this. well it's a huge setback for the d.n.c. the democratic national committee because they contracted with this firm to handle this and the firm itself the intercept has done a really good investigative report on it it was founded and run by all veterans of hillary clinton's campaign from 2016 so you know what kind of idiots you have to ask yourself after having ad with mitt been exposed for having sabotaged the standards campaign in 2016 to then have this this company running elections like in iowa and apparently in nevada nevada has dropped them now because of this catastrophe but. there's even evidence i saw evidence that that the bella totals were being changed because there was something weird it was late last night at 8 o'clock or something in the times there was a

so what happened today in iowa as you talked about earlier brings up the tough issues. is the caucus better than a primary, a. and "b," is it wise for iowa to go first given the fact it's not really representative of what the democratic party is. those issues have been around for a long time but i can assure that south carolina were the first primary the results would not be what they are tonight. >> not only would the results be different but you'd have different candidates in the race. >> the south of this country has 53% of african-americans who live in the south and a very good portion of the democratic party are african-americans. and if the votes were there first, you could have a very different grouping of nominees, and this thing would rollout in a different way. >> but why did want cory booker and kamala harris make any movements in south carolina then -- >> listen, i still have to say and i'm not sure that south carolina would end up ultimately -- with biden behind -- i think some of the formula going into it may have been different. but listen black voters for a long time

are other candidates that are available aside from even biden the fact is that it lost the last iowa caucus 2016 that he lost to hillary clinton clinton saying just in the past few days is it that nobody likes him nobody wants to work with him and in fact the candidate you want to win let alone 2 nights i would call because but you want to win the white house he claims to represent everyday american workers and that claim is baloney 1st of all i'm very happy to be with you been a fan of artsy for a long time you know i think you know senator clinton's critique of. bernie sanders this couldn't be further from the truth the reality is that he doesn't play the same game of speaking in soundbites. you know and in many ways he kind of reminds me of underground artists and like myself who don't craft what we do to fit into the little boxes that so often are available in the media but really have a much more of a broad and deep message the thing that i like about him the most is that he genuinely reaches out to working class people even on the other side of the ideological spectrum. that he speaks

despairs of the post corbin labor party socialists in the usa are looking hopefully to tonight's iowa caucus where lifelong anti-imperialist democratic contender bernie sanders looks to win a presidential nomination against war change a democrat hawk joe biden one man who has seen the power of the insurgents and his campaign firsthand is rapper and activist brother ali he opened for the senator at a recent sonders rally and he joins me now from minneapolis thanks so much brother ali for coming on you support sanders i know there are other candidates that are available aside from even biden the fact is that it lost the last iowa caucus 2016 that he lost to hillary clinton clinton saying just in the past few days is it that nobody likes him nobody wants to work with him and in fact the candidate you want to win let alone tonight i would call because but you want to win the white house he claims to represent everyday american workers and that claim is baloney 1st of all i'm very happy to be with you been a fan of artsy for a long time you know i think you know senator clinton's critique of bern

iowa caucus is so white -- at hashtag being used. critics say he does not represent america and it should not have so much influence over who the democrats pick. nick bryant is in des moines. nick: things did not go tolan at all in iowa last night. saconfusion, a colsense of anti-climax. chaos on caucus night is the headline. watching all of the candidatesf basically deliver victory speeches can even know nobody was certain who had won. for what we had today and last night were the most explicit claims of victory came from yor pete, as he is called here, pete buttieg. he is trying to become the first openly gay president we have ever had in the white house. ashe does reckon he won. the w campaigld have had precinct captains and caucus captns at these events who have their ownigures, and their campaign reckons they have won. but the bernie sanders campaign in the last hour or so has put out numbers that put him on top with 60% of precincts reporting. ro we will find out in time. of course, we should have found out ready. while the dem

my partial results are now in from the democratic caucus in the u.s. state of iowa after a lengthy delay and pete but a judge has taken a surprising lead ahead of bernie sanders with 62 percent of precincts counted art he's been as commentary. we still do not have complete results of the iowa caucuses the 1st vote or caucus i guess in the presidential primary of the united states now in terms of candidates and the results we have 62 percent of the precincts reporting and at this point in terms of state delegates in terms of delegates representing candidates pete british has 27 percent of the vote with bernie sanders with 25 percent behind him is elizabeth warren with 18 percent and joe biden in 4th place with a 16 percent now bernie sanders is ahead in the popular vote however in terms of the the the delegates representing the state at the party convention is in the lead despite the lack of results we had both bernie sanders and people to declare victory so we don't hear results. by all indications we are going on to new hampshire victorious. due to the failure of t

sanders:: the iowa caucus is just much too complicated. on one hand you've got to determine the popular vote. if you want to talk about realignment, and you can make , if someone doesn't get 15%, should you have the option? it's enormously complicated. the answer is, what i just told you i believe to be the case. we are going to win by 6000 votes. we will end up with the same number of delegates to the democratic national convention as does mr. buttigieg. does that sound right? one would think if you win the victory in the popular vote, you would get more delegates. what will not happen again, if i have anything to say about it is a caucus this complicated. that will not happen again. maybe one more question. >> senator a key part of your , arguments of the general election, that you will boost turnout by bringing all of these people into the process that have not been phoning. -- that have not been voting. iowa turnout doesn't look like it was higher than the last time. does that concern you? >> it does. this is what i do want to say. i w

the first votes will be cast in the iowa caucus. over the weekend candidates hoping to unseat president trump crisscrossed the state in a last ditch effort to get votes. cbs news poll shows senator bernie sanders and former vice president joe biden locked in a tight race at the top. michael george is in des moines. michael, what have you seen in the final hours of campaigning? >> reporter: well, ann-marie, a close contest here in iowa and the candidates know it. they spent the weekend trying to get as much face time with voters as possible. when we talk to voters we hear a lot of excitement, engagement. democratic leaders are predicting the biggest turnout for the caucuses ever. >> we're going to beat donald trump. >> reporter: the final stretch. >> never had a greater responsibility than you have today. >> reporter: every second counts. >> our volunteers in a state of 3.1 million people have knocked on 500,000 doors. >> reporter: democratic candidates are making a last minute blitz across the state with campaign volunteers going do

iowa,. despite fact a liberal caucus members, does not iowa skew among democrats more conservative, with social issues. if pete buttigieg getting that obama magic this time? i think that is how he portrayed himself to iowa voters, i am young, i am new, i am not the establishment. you may not know me, you may not be familiar with me, that is a good thing. david: i am wondering because of chaos with caucuses, is first of all is iowa going to lose its first place status as first place to have one of niece. these, and will caucus survive, nevada is not using that same software, but they will have something like this. >> i'm a staunch defender of the iowa caucus. david: why. >> i like the process. >> i am from wisconsin. i am a midwest parochial kid. i like that iowa gave midwest a prominent early voice when so much of politics is driven by the coast. david: irony is that democrats more than anything has been complaining about electoral college system, and iowa they gets for you away from direct voting. >> i have never been one to be for abolishing the electoral college, it is a great equalizer. it

you see the median person who wins the iowa caucus gets a three-point bounce. y beat expectations in iowa for every point they beat expectations they get half percentage bounce. for every percentage they underperform they lose half of a percentage points. john cancery 2004 did well in iowa. outperformed expectations, won new hampshire and then won the nominations. >> why it can make-or-break a can't's campaign. good to have you here. prediction for super bowl. >> kansas city chiefs. maybe i'll be right. maybe i'll be wrong. but i'm going to enjoy it. >> thank you. >>> get ready for all week special political coverage. tomorrow iowa caucuses. tuesday state of the union. wednesday and thursday presidential town halls. don't go away either here. we have much more "cnn newsroom" when we come back. this is my skin. and this is cc+ cream. it gives you your skin but better. it's your full coverage foundation, spf 50 plus anti aging serum. discover the #1 cc cream in america. discover the #1 cake in the conference room! showing 'em you're ready... to be your own boss. t

. >> the iowa caucus has been mired by an hours long delay. the democrat party released this statement in iowa, saying this is simply a reporting issue, this is not a hack or intrusion, the underlying data and paper trail is down and it will simply take time to further report results. the delay did not stop candidates from coming out and speaking to restless supporters. the team was focused on beating donald trump. >> in less than a year, unions will be stronger than ever when that one man is replaced by one very persistent woman. [ cheering ] >> four more years of donald trump will fundamentally alter the character of this nation and character is on the ballot, that is what this is. >> the first state in the country has voted, and today marks the beginning of the end for donald trump. >> there are only 41 delegates up for grabs, but it often goes as i will go spend the last four democratic nominees were all winners here, and candidates are trying to build momentum toward new hampshire. so i'm going right to new hampshire where i will be one of

hong kong retail sales can't catch a break. ♪ democrats in the iowa caucus are taking the first step ward choosing their candidate. our chief washington correspondent joins us from des moines. >> in under an hour we are going to have the caucus space opening up. a lot of expectations for bernie sanders, perceived as the front runner. biden, atling out joe progressive versus centrist. expectations being managed by the staffers of all of the campaigns. should biden squeak out a victory, it would be a huge sense of momentum heading into new hampshire. should he finished in third, fourth, or fifth, that would be difficult for his candidacy. everyone has their eyes on ,uttigieg, wharton, klobuchar to see who may pull off an upset. they will get free media off a showing, plus the sense of momentum. they have to be able to pick up the phone, call their donors and say, i still have a chance to win. >> explained to us the process of these iowa caucuses. would beon is, what the threshold of support all these candidates would need in order to be considered a legitimate candidate going forward? t

caucus event on c-span and c-span two. we will be in milo, iowa. mocratic caucus live on c-span2 at 7:30. p.m.ll join you at 9:30 eastern for caucus results. you can watch that today and tomorrow night on the c-span network. pierre is calling from washington, d.c.. who do you like? caller: i like a lot. anyone of them could be trump, anyone has to be trump. -- beat trump. any democrat that gets the nomination has my vote. my eyes are on the prize. i have donated to a few like pete, and klobuchar, and biden. if any of them gets nominated they have my vote because we have to get this guy out. i am on board. host: a couple of texts. i have been a buttigieg supporter since the beginning and he has only cemented that support. lobuchar is my second option. trump will eat sanders alive. mike bloomberg is featured here in the new york post, unveiling a $5 trillion tax plan. mike bloomberg is feeling philanthropic, this time with your money. the 2020 presidential candidate unveiled $5 trillion to promote new taxes as part of his sweeping domestic program tha

i've never seen, this is my fifth iowa caucus, i've never seen is my fifth iowa caucus, i've never seenng to say we need a recount. the question now is what does joe recount. the question now is what doesjoe biden, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg do. do they do like amy klobuchar? she has to think all the supporters in the room, they have been there for up room, they have been there for up to four hours and they will have to go to bed eventually. —— she has to thank. people have work tomorrow, there are ba bysitters have work tomorrow, there are babysitters to relieve. that's why she made the decision to come out and talk. they say she has outperformed expect patients, laying out some of the things she will do. we have no idea whether amy klobuchar will be the nominee but she sees the moment right now. but the story out of iowa tonight is this quirky, exceptional system. this complicated process and democratic voting and has in many ways a lot of affection in the country because it does inspire people to learn about their candidates, they get access to them, they are

maybe iowa is not the greatest spot to start it? maybe it is just the whole caucus? that is the way they do it? >> julian castro, leading up to this, had said iowa cannot be the first state because it is not representative. it is 90% white and an older population. it is not indicative of the u.s. there are other chances for that, this does not help but i think to the point, this is the way it has been done. at least since the 1970s. what we may see is that this continues because it is tradition. >> they will forget in 4 years. >> absolutely. you watched last night in these churches and gyms, people walking, it was choice voting in person. it is wild to watch. >> you've got to get it right. >> absolutely, 100%, you've got to get it right. >> is anything happening as a result of the california primary? >> the thing to keep in mind right now is that early voting for californians and a lot of the super tuesday states -- >> is underway, yes. >> a lot of californians like to wait because of what we see out of iowa, some candidates drop out of the race. what californians don

those bins were physically walked to the iowa democratic party headquarters. the caucus director that i was talking to last night told us he got started so late, he didn't bother using the app. instead, he walked results across the street. here's the problem, stephanie. iowa is the first in the nation to go to the polls, using polls loosely, it is a caucus, not a poll, they're the ones that first decide. they don't necessarily pick winners here, we have seen in the past people that have won iowa have not gone on to win the presidential election. but what they do is they whittle the field, make the race tighter as it moves to new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, and so forth. here's the big good news here. there's a paper trail. they'll be able to go back, check out results. it will come out probably at some point today. the bad news is that the confusion here is going to allow people on social media and other places to claim the system is not working. you've seen the president do that, seen his campaign manager do that. when election officials look at the election of 2

retire better. >>> welcome back to cnn's live coverage of the iowa caucus that would not end. re here with our panel and we are awaiting at least partial results from the iowa democratic party, which we're told will come at 5:00 p.m. eastern. let's discuss what happened, what this all means and where the presidential candidates go from here. but before we do that, we just got some sound from senator bernie sanders. let's roll that if we can. >> last night, obviously, i am disappointed. i suspect i can speak for all of the candidates, all of their supporters and the people of iowa that the iowa democratic party has not been able to come up with timely election results. i can't understand why that happens, but it has happened. and i want to just introduce -- >> all right, so that's senator bernie sanders, and then what he went on to do and we're not going to repeat what he did, but jeff weaver, one of the top strategists, then before the cameras and they put out a press release like this yesterday, gloria, is they gave the sanders campaign raw totals of what they think the result

iowa. he is claiming 97% of gop support in the hawkeye state, republicans coming out in full force, reaching the caucusurnout record set by president obama in 2012, donald trump tweeting overnight big win for us in iowa tonight, thank you. massachusetts governor bill wells and congressman joe walsh trail behind the president with one% each. >> with iowa up in the ever democrats where exactly do they go from here. >> let's ask democratic political analyst kelly hyman and former chairman of the manhattan libertarian party aaron comey, thank you for being here. we appreciate it. we still don't have anything to talk about. >> there were some inconsistencies and the concern they wanted to get it right and in 2016 this happened before, we didn't get results until the day after so we will be fine. >> looking at this thing, iowa is only important for so long. in one week we do new hampshire. it is still contested in the next few days iowa could almost become obsolete is all the focus will turn somewhere else. >> especially for candidates on the democratic side. they could not get this figured out, you had a co

continue to be counted we'll keep our viewers updated of course on the latest developments in the iowa caucus while the democrats were busy wondering where it all went wrong in iowa donald trump was giving his 3rd state of the union speech his own private battle with the democratic speaker it was all going on nancy pelosi 1st broke with tradition by introducing the president without using the words on or on privilege trump turn refused her hunch check pelosi then ripped out the american leader speech right behind him and was shaking her head throughout. the state of our union is stronger then ever before because. the world would not now be witnessing this great economic success thank you narrative state has become the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world i. do not believing they are coming back to the usa. i keep my promises as we did our job. the republicans have been reacting to nancy pelosi shredding tactics pointing out that she ripped off a tribute to american heroes including a 100 year old veteran u.s. senator lindsey graham her actions will diminish the wor

>>> welcome to a very special iowa caucus edition of kc d.c. we are live at java joe's in des moines. i am joined by some of the best here on the ground in iowa, and our road warriors are spread out across the states with the candidates they've been covering for months in the rain and snow. and believe it or not, the dw20 election season opens tomorrow. first we find ourselves in a mind bending stretch of days. the latest poll from cbs news and u-gov shows joe biden and bernie sanders tied for the lead at 25% each. some shows of force from candidates this weekend. the sanders campaign says 3,000 people were in attendance. and at andrew yang's, a field organizer said we are past the fire code. that shows that 46% of americans approve of the job that president trump is doing while 51% disapprove. what's happening back home in washington after the republican majority succeeded in blocking witnesses in the impeachment trial? a vote on the final verdict set for wednesday. after tomorrow's caucuses, president trump will enter the house chamber as a pr

. >>> welcome to oo very special iowa caucus edition of "kasie d.c." live in des moines and for the next two hours i'm joined by some of the best experts, analysts on the ground in iowa. and our road warriors across the state with the candidates they've been covering for months in the rain and snow as, believe it or not, the 2020 election season begins tomorrow. >>> but first we find ourselves in a mind-bending stretch of days for this country. the latest poll from cbs news shows bernie -- joe biden and bernie sanders tied for the lead at 25% each. and people were in attendance for a rally at ceder rapids and andrew yang, and reportedly told the crowd, we are past the fire code as the new "wall street journal" poll shows 46% of americans approve of the job that president trump is doing while 75% disprove. after the republican majority in the senate succeeded in blocking witnesses in the president's impeachment trial this week. a vote on the final verdict set for wednesday. that means tomorrow president trump fwhwill enter the house chamber as the presid

something that's been talked about very openly which is why should iowa continue to be the first in the nation caucusocrats, given that iowa doesn't necessarily represent or have the demographic makeup that the democratic party now does which is to say african-americans make up a huge part of the democratic party and it does make up a big part of the democratic party here in iowa. >> the very nature of our caucus process means that candidates have to go deeper. they can't just come in to des moines and cedar rapids, two big rallies, put a bunch of money on tv and digital ads and call it a day. you have to come in here and build organization, build support in all the different communities across this state. that's urban areas and rural areas. african-american communities, latino communities, the disability community. you have to build an organization that can prop up support, build support, build organization within all those communities at the same time. it's why when people come out of here people who do well in iowa they typically do well later on in the process. not because they got the most state

rear-view mirror and move on to new hampshire. >> vaughn, ahead of tomorrow's debate and the rocky iowa caucuseg doing right now? he was out fairly early claiming victory in iowa. now it is a little less clear and clearly up somewhere near the top. >> reporter: look at the polls right leading up to the iowa caucus there. they didn't have pete buttigieg ahead. the polls all had bernie sanders or joe biden ahead in the state and look who came out on top or very close to being on top. pete buttigieg. that's the same thing that you are seeing here in new hampshire. you just mentioned that poll in which pete buttigieg is just a couple points behind bernie sanders but if you're the buttigieg campaign they're contending that they take the same message of iowa which is to bring out not only democrats but also independents and republicans and convince them that pete buttigieg is the most electable candidate. look where we are. new hampshire. that message can resonate here. donald trump lost by less than 3,000 votes to hillary clinton in 2016. that's not lost on the folks here in new hampshire. i want t

the iowa caucus and the mess they made of it isjust a sideshow. state all the way to july, unless a clear winner emerges. willa clear winner emerge before then? otherwise, trump is left as the incumbent delivering the narrative. incumbency has tremendous advantages. the party divided is another advantage. it will be bloody and messy. that will be good for donald trump. he has got the russians on his side and the saudis were good enough to hackjeff bezos' phone and there are lots of advantages he will have. however, as we saw in the 2018 elections, trump caused so much revulsion among a wide strand of democrats and independents that they got out and voted. he does cause revulsion and it is so difficult to predict. if you can do that again, he can be beaten. if those results were repeated, he could be beaten. and hillary clinton got 3 million more votes than he did. there is material to work with here. it is the strangeness of the electoral college system. he can claim economic success. he does claim he has made the country respected internationally

saying thisf people is the end of the iowa caucus. may be undemocratic as they are, people have to take time, then you add in the screwup. do you believe this could be the iowa's role as the first state to go? john: obviously, they say this is the end of the iowa caucus or the iowa-new hampshire process every cycle. there will be pressure on change. i think the changes this time helped contribute to the overload of information that shut things down. it remains to be seen. conversation that takes place after the general election. anys premature to make predictions right now. romaine: we don't need to make connections. there have been questions about the caucus process in general. you are one of only four states to rely on this. wyoming, north dakota are others. why does the caucus process produced anything more tangible compared to the normal going to the polls? organic is the most democratic participatory project. you have people in a room having a conversation. a level ofolitics to conversation that i think helps the democratic proce

we begin "the day" coming out of the caucus cloud over iowa. this is what we know so far. nday's caucus vote in iowa, the first in the process of determining which democrat will challenge president trump in november, delivered a disaster followed by a shock. problems with a smartphone app stalled the reporting of results, and we only have just over 70% of the results at the moment. but what the numbers tell is a story no one would have predicted just a few months ago. the former mayor of south bend, indiana, a newcomer to national politics, pete buttigieg, is leading the pack of 11 candidates. former vice president joe biden, long considered the front runner, suffering a setback, now in fourth place behind mayor pete, bernie sanders, and elizabeth warren. >> a campaign that started a year ago with four staff members, no name recognition, no money, just a big idea. has taken its place at the front of this race to replace the current president with a better vision of your future. >> i am proud to tell you that last night in iowa, we received more votes on the first and second

also joining us, the host of cavuto, coast-to-coast, fox business special iowa caucus coverage mr. neil cavuto. >> hey, dave. david: you just returned from iowa. democrats always complain about complexity of theti -- electoral college, what amazes me is provider of the w iowa caucuses are. this is complex. neil: truths told a little bit different for republicans, they hope to make it as transparent as they can. you of going to have first read to popular vote from those who vote for a certain candidate, even if they don't get minimum 15%, then they add up the next phase, then the delegate equivalent winners. david: you already lost he, more get it. >> this was meant to get a clear sense of who iowa voters like. it could complicate it a lot >> neil we hear there is still a large segment of iowa population that is uncommitted. did you get that sense that people would be make up their minds at last minute. neil: absolutely. in 1976, jimmy carter made this state famous but he played second to uncom fitte fit uncom. they are not expecting the same to be registered today, but this notion t

but the iowa caucus is much much much too complicated.one hand you got to determine the popular vote, that you've got to do. if you want to talk about realignment and you could make the argument that okay what happens if somebody doesn't get their 15% should those people have options to go elsewhere. but then when you get into calculating these sde's, that is enormously complicated. the answer is, what i just told you what i believe to be the case. we are going to win by 6000 votes, we will end up with the same number of delegates to the democratic national convention as will mr. buttigieg. does that sound right? one would think if you win a pretty good victory of the popular vote you would get more national delegates. it's a complicated formula and so forth. so what will not happen again if i have anything to say about it, is a caucus this complicated that will not happen again. maybe one more question. >> senator, a key part of your argument of the general election is that you will boost turnout by bringing all these people into the pro