>> i'm laura jarrett. it's friday, february 7th and 5:00 a.m. in the east. and just four days until the new hampshire primary and candidates are finally looking forward. they can do that because four days after iowa we finally have the results in with 100% of precincts reporting pete buttigieg holds a razor thin lead of 0.10% every bernie sanders. elizabeth warren, joe biden and amy klobuchar rounding out the top five. >> nar low topping buttigieg in the popular vote. bottom line buttigieg and sanders are heading to new hampshire effectively tied. this was the reaction from buttigieg live at a cnn town hall hearing he held onto that small lead. >> what is your reaction? >> well, it's fantastic news to hear that we won. >> that win for us in iowa is fantastic, but i also know we're in new hampshire now. we've got to look ahead. new hampshire is a state that

has never been told what to do, and we've got to earn every vote and earn a win on tuesday night right here. >> sanders also had a cnn town hall. he has faced repeated questions whether he did enough to help the 2016 nominee hillary clinton. last night he tried to put similar worries about 2020 to bed. >> no matter who wins the nomination, needless to say i hope it's me. but no matter who wins the nomination, we're all going to work together to defeat trump. that i think you can take to the bank. >> senator amy klobuchar with a surprisingly strong showing in iowa. she's sharing the moderate lane with butte swigieg and biden, bn her cnn town hall she told a voter she's not going anywhere. >> every single time i have exceed exceeded expectations. we came very close to the fb number of people that have turned out.

we actually left iowa a lot of enthusiasm. >> there will be seven candidates on stage tonight for the final democratic debate before the first primary in new hampshire. and a special big night for joe biden who's trying to overcome a weak r an expected showing in iowa. he was actually back home in dew on thursday with advisers plotting a reset. >> the campaign trying to look past the iowa debacle but that's hard to do. a cnn ananalist shows aviter of errors. iowa democratic officials also now say president trump's supporters made matters worse. they say prank callers flooded the phone hot line used for reporting results when the app failed. now the national democratic party wants to step in and straighten out the voting errors, but state party officials are pushing back. cnn's jeff zeleny has more from des moines. >> christine and laura, four days after the iowa caucuses, still counting the votes here in des moines. interesting dedevelopments here going on inside the democratic

party. iowa democratic leaders i'm told were blienld sided by tom perez, chairman of the democratic national committee calling for a re-canvas. as it turns out he does not have the authority to do that. a re-canvas has to be requested by a candidate or a campaign. so what you asked is a re-canvas. essentially it's going through the numbers. it is essentially reconciling the numbers on those spread sheets we saw with the numbers called into the state party. would that change things? unclear. but the reason for it is this. so many inconsistencies in the numbers. that's not necessarily common in close elections. elections are run by people, always human error. but the difference about this of course is the satellite caucuses, which bernie sanders pushed for four years ago. that allows people to come in and vote early on monday night. so as we head into today, the last day of the week, a couple of questions. a, will the buttigieg campaign or the sanders campaign come forward before the noon deadline and request a re-canvas?

the iowa democratic party saidwreck look, we're not going to do it unless they do. democrats in iowa sent a very mixed signal, pete buttigieg and bernie sanders. this means as this primary goes down the road two very different candidates as the party reconciles who the strongest one is to take on president trump. laura and christine? >> all right, jeff zeleny, thanks so much. well, emboldened and certainly not sorry. president trump took a venomous victory lap to celebrate his acquittal in the senate impeachment trial. it all started at the yearly national prayer breakfast with house speaker nancy pelosi looking on. >> i don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. nor do i like people who say i pray for you when they know that that's not so. >> you might recall house

speaker pelosi has repeatedly told reporters praise for the president and senator mitt romney says it was his faith that drove him to convict the president. >> later at the white house the president heaped praise on everyone in the room. it wasn't long before the president turned the heat up going scorched earth on his opponents. >> we first went through russia, russia, russia. it was all bull [ bleep ]. it was evil. it was corrupt. it was dirty cops. it was leakers and liars. say hello to the people of utah and tell them i'm sorry about mitt romney, i'm sorry, okay? if i didn't fire james comey we would have never found this stuff. because when i fired that sleazebag all hell broke out. adam schiff is a vicious horrible person.

nancy pelosi is a horrible person. she may pray but she prays for the opposite. but i doubt she prays at all. >> the president is scheduled to get back to governing today. he will be in charlotte for the north carolina opportunity now summit. it's designed to facilitate investments in low income areas. a key witness in president trump's impeachment hearings is leaving his post at the national security council in the coming weeks. a source tells cnn lieutenant colonel alexander vindman is expected oo return to the defense department. vindman was originally asked to work at the white house for two years. that would take him to july. no official word whether his departure from the nse was voluntary, but sources were telling cnn way back as far as november trade aides were exploring moving witnesses including vindman out of their white house posts. breaking overnight, an alarming example of just how quickly the coronavirus can spread in close quarters. a quarantined cruise ship docked off the coast of japan reporting 41 additional cases on friday. that brings the grand total to

61, and it's only going to get worse the longer people are trapped on that ship. cnn was the first tv network to speak with one of the 11 americans on the ship diagnosed with the virus. matt rivers live in yokohama, japan. matt, what is the latest there? i mean just this woman is trapped and she hasn't had symptoms yet but stuck. >> reporter: yeah, and her situation is just repeated over and over again on that ship behind me. there's around 3,700 people on that ship and staff members and people trying to enjoy a vacation. people on that ship are quarantined for the next 14 days. they're only allowed to leave their rooms for roughly an hour or so per day. and there's a lot of rooms on that ship that don't even have windows. you can imagine what people are going through. yesterday there was 20 cases of confirmed coronavirus. that jumped up by 41 cases and

stands at 61 now. now that number could go up higher. some of whom have been among those diagnosed with coronavirus. we managed to speak with one of the people diagnosed. it was a woman onboard who actually filmed the moment when nurses came and gave her diagnosis and here's what she told us shortly thereafter. >> a little disbelief and shock. a little bit scared. hard to know what the future holds since i really don't feel sick right now. trying not to freak out with all this so take it in strides, and yeah. >> so as people have been diagnosed what they've done is brought blans up to the ship and taken those patients off the

ship, put them in local hospitals where they'll receive further treatment. that's what we can expect from the woman you just heard from. remarkable stoicism in the face of what is a very difficult situation. >> matt rivers, thanks so much for being there for us. >> two flights carrying americans out of wuhan, china, en route now to the u.s. this morning. one stopping over in vancouver before heading to the air corp marine station near san diego. the other will land first at travis air force base. meantime china's top anti-corruption agency is sending a team of investigators to wuhan following the death of a doctor who warned of the coronavirus months ago but was silenced by the government. the january jobs report is due in about 3 hours. christine romans is ready. why the weather may have helped the numbers. red to you! ...take the personal assessment and get matched with a proven weight loss plan. find out which customized plan can make losing weight easier for you!

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the lgbtq has pushed to be recognized in traditional government statistics. it will not affect the unemployment rate or number of jobs added but will show up in a few categories in underlying tables. attorney general bill barr handing down orders to avoid instaring injustice department in the 2020 elections like it was in 2016. under the rules no investigation of a presidential candidate can begin without barr's sign-off. the fbi wants to involve top justice officials before investigating any congressional campaigns. a memo obtained by cnn says the aim is to ensure the november elections are free from improper activity or influences. the move is a response to criticism of the fbi's handling of the russia probe and the investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail servers. all right, 15 minutes past the hour. the globetrotters are famous for putting smiles on fans faces but see what happens when they help a military mom reunite with her

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gayle king had some sharp words for her employer cbs news from sharing a clip from her recent interview with former wnba star lisa leslie. the morning star questioned leslie about a 2003 sexual assault allegation against kobe bryant and whether it complicated his legacy during a wide ranging interview. cbs posted the clip on social media, and the morning show host says she was blind-sided by all the blow back. >> i am mortified. i am embarrassed. and i am very angry. for the network to take the most salacious part when taken out of

context and put it up online for people who didn't see the whole interview is very upsetting to me, and that's something i'm going to have to deal with them. >> cbs says it's currently addressing its internal process and changes have already been made. "early start" continues right now. 2020 democrats swarming new hampshire ahead of tuesday's primary. what they mean for the upcoming states. i'm trying not to freak out with all of this. >> first on cnn, an american trapped on a quarantined cruise ship now diagnosed with coronavirus. what's next for her and thousands of others on that ship. and a deadly weather system surges through the southeast, hundreds of thousands in the dark. what today holds in store. good morning welcome back. this is "early start." i'm laura jarrett.

>> i'm christine romans. it is 30 minutes past it hour on this friday, friday morning and just four days until the new hampshire primary candidates are finally looking forward. they can do that because four days after iowa we finally have results with 100% of precincts reporting pete buttigieg holds a razor thin lead of 0.10% over bernie sanders. that's in the state delegate count the yardstick used to determine a winner. >> sanders has reason to celebrate bottom line buttigieg and sanders are heading to new hampshire effectively tied. this was the reaction from buttigieg live at a cnn town hall hearing that he'd held onto that slim lead. >> what is your reaction? well, it's fantastic news to hear that we won. that win for us in iowa is fantastic, but i also know that we're in new hampshire now. we've got to look ahead. new hampshire is a state that has never been told what to do,

and we've got to earn every vote and earn a win on tuesday night right here. >> sanders also had a cnn town hall. he's faced repeated questions about whether he did enough to help the 2016 nominee hillary clinton. last night he tried to put similar worries about 2020 to bed. >> no matter who wins the nomination, needless to say i hope it's me. but no matter who wins the nomination, we're all going to work together to defeat donald trump. that i think you could take to the bank. >> amy klobuchar with a surprisingly strong showing in iowa. she's sharing the moderate lane with buttigieg and biden. but in her cnn town hall she told a voter she's not going anywhere. >> every single time i have exceeded expectations. we came very close in terms of the number of people that turned out to vice president biden. look at the numbers yourself. so we actually left iowa with a

lot of enthusiasm. >> there will be seven candidates on stage tonight for the final democratic debate before the first primary in new hampshire and an especially big night for joe biden who's trying to overcome that weaker showing in iowa. he was actually back home in delaware on thursday with advisers plotting a reset. >> the campaigns trying to look past the iowa debacle but that's proving hard to do. a cnn analysis shows a variety of errors in the count reported by the state democratic party. now the national democratic party wants to step in to straighten out the voting errors. but state party officials are pushing back. cnn's jeff zeleny has more on this from des moines. >> christine and laura, four days after the iowa caucuses, still counting the votes here in des moines. interesting developments here going on inside the democratic party. iowa democratic leaders i'm told were blind-sided by tom perez, chairman of the democratic national committee, calling for a re-canvas. as it turns out he does not have the authority to do that.

a re-canvas has to be requested by a candidate or a campaign. so what you ask is a re-canvas. essentially it's going to going through the numbers, essentially reconciling the numbers on those spread sheets that we saw with the numbers that were called into the state party. would that change things? unclear. but the reason for it is this. so many inconsistencies in the numbers. that's not necessarily uncommon in close elections. elections are run by people, always human error. but the difference of this of course is the satellite caucuses which bernie sanders pushed for four years ago. that allows people to come in and vote early monday night. as we head into today, the last day of the week, a couple of questions. a, will the buttigieg campaign or the sanders campaign come forward before the new deadline and request a re-canvas? the iowa democratic party said, look, we're not going to do it unless they do. one thing clear from this democrats in iowa sent a very

mixed signal, pete buttigieg and bernie sanders. that means as this primary goes on down the road two very different candidates as the party reconciles who the strongest is to take on president trump. >> emboldened and not afraid to show it, president trump took a venomous victory lap to celebrate his impeachment trial. it was all started at the yearly national prayer breakfast with house speaker nancy pelosi looking on. >> i don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. nor do i like people who say i pray for you when they know that that's not so. >> the prayer breakfast for personal vendettas and complaints. you might recall speaker pulosely has repeated told reporters she prays for the

president and senator mitt romney said it was his faith that pushed him to vote to convict the president. >> he made this curious remark about his legal team. >> in the beginning they said, sir, you have nothing to worry about. all of the facts are on your side. i said you don't understand. that doesn't matter. that doesn't matter. and that was really true. >> it didn't take long before the president turned up the heat up a notch going scorched earth on his opponents in the white house east room. >> we first went through russia, russia, russia. it was all bull [ bleep ]. it was evil. it was corrupt. it was dirty cops. it was leakers and liars. say hello to the people of utah and tell them i'm sorry about mitt romney. i'm sorry.

okay? if i didn't fire james comey we would have never found this stuff. because when i fired that sleazebag all hell broke out. adam schiff is a vicious, horrible person. nancy pelosi is a horrible person. she may pray but she prays for the opposite. but i doubt she prays at all. >> there's no question mitt romney and speaker pelosi are very deeply religious people in their respective faiths. the president is expected to be back in charlotte today to facilitate investments in low income areas. all the, more on all this plus a big change for how uber does business. the united explorer card hooks me up. getting more for getting away. traveling lighter. getting settled. rewarded. learn more at the explorer card dot com.

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2020 democrats looking ahead to new hampshire. sanders and buttigieg splitting

it down the middle. >> joining us now "the washington post" congressional reporter a cnn political analyst. good morning. i was born and raised in iowa. i love iowans. for the last four days iowa was getting like a florida moniker there for a while. iowa was irrelevant, iowa messed it up. but in the end when it was all said and done didn't iowa do what it was supposed to do, identify a rising candidate, show there's still support for bernie sanders, a lot of support for bernie sanders, show that joe biden who was seen as the perceived front runner had some work to do? didn't we get something out of iowa in the end? >> yes but there's a large asterisk still because of the way it played out and the time it took. and i think that has almost kind of muted the effect you would have had if you'd just had a late monday night or very early tuesday morning, and now pete

buttigieg won by the count of the delegates, bernie sanders won the popular vote, biden in third and klobuchar fifth. that would have been a much more impact boom on all of those campaigns especially buttigieg and sanders and biden. but because it took so long to trickle out because there's been so questions around the legitimacy and how the accounting was screwed up, now there's a kind of muted effect of each of those victories and disappointments as we head into new hampshire. >> getting all those votes tabulated, there's no question it's been a complete mess. no indication there was any hacking or intrusion here. that's something iowa officials i feel like have gone out of their way to emphasize. but doesn't it show just the vulnerability of the system and how i mean that was where everybody's mind went, the first thing when we heard the news of all the problems. and one line from your story in

"the washington post" about the senate intelligence report on the russia investigation really stuck out to me here. you write this. still the report states plainly that the u.s. government was not well-postured to counter russian election interference activity with a full range of readily available policy options. are we a good range in 2020 to counter interference? we learned prank callers are jamming up the hot lines in iowa. >> well, i mean this is the thing, right? how do you do consequences when you're talking about two completely different strains of influence. the criticism for how the obama administration responded to the russian threat in 2016 is it didn't tell the public enough what was going on when we perceived the disinformation campaign. they were not firm enough with the russians about what the consequences would be, and there was no set plan for what do you do when you notice this sort of thing happening? and speaking out about it despite the fact there may be a

politically charged environment you're in and people misinterpret things you're say as favoring one candidate or the other. when you're talking about a situation like this you're talking about a basic ability to manipulate the confidence in the system. that is what it ultimately does come to on both sides. are the results of the elections actually suspect? most of the time, no. the russians did not actually change vote tallies at the end of the day. the prank callers are gumming up the phone lines but not necessarily changing the actual results of the iowa caucuses, but there's no public confidence or diminished public confidence is more accurate to say. and that when you have the election system as the bedrock of the foundation that's a problem. >> so a little confidence but now the dnc is calling for re-canvassing of districts that have problems. >> it's what america's enemies

want to question the election. a poll has been pretty consistent here. beating trump is a very big important issue. 55% say it's more important than other policy issues. 29% say about as important. you've got the president of the united states setting himself up as his strong economy versus the socialist corrupt democrats. who in the party is best, i guess positioned -- i guess that's what we're trying to decide now. you've got bernie sanders coming out well, he fits into that socialist democrat mold the president is trying to sale. buttigieg is the moderate guy. >> i think this is the choice the democratic party is trying to make. do they respond to -- do they want a moderate, or do they want somebody -- are they concerned about what the president is saying in terms of socialist democrats, is that actually going to be the decision making factor? this is the fundamental issue

for the party since we started this general season. we always knew that the president was going to come out punching. he's now feeling unleashed by the impeachment trial and he is a force to be reckoned with. i think the question for democrats is do they choose a moderate who does not necessarily fit the bill of what the president is saying or do they choose somebody who maybe is but forget it maybe we think they can win anyway? we had iowa happen and iowa is significant for the kick off, the power thart it has. but like i said before that was kind of muted how that went around, and it's actually kind of a tiny little percentage of the election votes in the end and there's a lot more of the campaign trail to go especially considering we're only one into the five early states this week. >> is it really just one? >> can i say something about the economy? the president i've been

fascinated to watch this, he has a real advantage here. he exaggerates how well the economy is. but he's managed to cheer lead his way into earning it alone and that is something the democrats have not been able to really chip away at, the narrative. the economy even though he had completely wrapped it up in hyperbole he still has the advantage. >> and the democrats have not figured out how to counter that. >> thanks so much. have a great weekend. always good to see you. all right, breaking overnight, an alarming example of just how quickly the coronavirus can spread in close quarters. a quarantined cruise ship docked off the coast of japan reporting 41 additional cases on friday. that brings the total to 61. and it's only going to get worse the longer people are trapped on that ship.

cnn was the first tv network to speak with one of 11 americans on the ship diagnosed with the virus. matt rivers live for us in yokohama, japan. matt, what is the latest there? all those folks trapped. >> reporter: yeah, the latest is that what's going on on that ship behind me there is just a tough situation for the people onboard. we know everyone onboard is going to be quarantined here in japan about 45 minutes to an hour outside of tokyo for the next 14 days. the only people going to be allowed off that ship are the people who have been diagnosed with coronavirus. so that way they're going to be allowed to be taken to local hospitals. around 3,700 people onboard that ship, 428 of whom are americans. 11 of those americans have been diagnosed with this coronavirus. and earlier today as you mentioned we were able to speak to one of the women that has been diagnosed. her husband was filming actually

as nurses came to the door of the cabin at they're staying onboard and gave them that tough news. here's what she had to say when she spoke to us shortly thereafter. >> a bit of disbelief and shock and a lilt bit scared, hard to know what the future holds since i don't really feel sick right now. like is it going to get worse? trying not to freak out with all of this. so just take it in strides and, yeah, see how it goes. >> reporter: and, you know, we're talking ability how more people can get diagnosed. consider this, that woman's husband has yet to be diagnosed and yet he's shared a cabin with her now for well over a week. so there's a very good chance he could get diagnosed. and if that happens in that cabin, well it certainly could happen in others. >> it just shows you the numbers are going to go way up.

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