we are trying to build up the democratic party. representing the west, the midwest, and the south and the east coast. all of these exercises are about november and beating the republicans in november. kevin: you hear from democrats how important it is for them to win back the midwest part of the country, states like iowa, which the president carried by 10 percentage points. the president will talk to the country tonight and this is the lasting political story of the last 24 hours and america's consciousness. does this change what the president has to say? craig: i am sure he will mention it and i am sure he will crow about it a little bit. there is a story in the bloomberg terminal that some people in the market think what happened last night helps donald trump a lot because the democrats look like the gang that cannot shoot straight. they cannot run their own election. it is the iowa democratic party and they messed it up. , to defendectfully the former executive director of the i would democratic party, and not to go against you,

should people be mad at the national democratic party? >> listen, i understand that is part of the job. what happened in iowa was unacceptable, and the party chair has acknowledged that. he's apologized for that and we have worked together over the past few days to fix the challenges. and i'm very relieved that we now have 100% reported. at the same time, there have been reports and we have seen in the tabulation process that there were some questions raised. there was an example of a presint in black hawk county where 83 black hawk equivalents were apportioned to patrick, which was a clear error. so we all care. we have a chaired interest in making sure we have accuracy. and, so, what we did today in asking to make sure that people need a recanvas in this presint or that presint that it's done because we care about accuracy. that's why it took us longer because our north star was indeed accuracy. >> are you calli ining for a state-wide canvas. >> we're calling for the latter because there were reports in a number of presints. i don't kno

in my introduction i kind of last week or 2 we were rhetorical e is the democratic party imploding maybe i should say exploding what's going on i mean you know what you're in a hole the best thing to do is stop diggin and it doesn't seem like that's happening go ahead garland well i'm at a point where you know maybe we're wrong to define this thing as a party you know my background is in law enforcement and you know we enforced rico laws racketeering influenced corrupt organization laws this is a corrupt organization and the. president's. organization exactly like this so i think we have to redefine it i don't. right i don't think that there's a separation between the impeachment and between what happened in iowa this is all this is all evidence of a organization that has collapsed and what we're seeing now they're not collapsing this is post collapse this is an evidence of that the party has intellectually and morally collapsed ok charles jump in in new york here i get so we could end the program now he said basically why but i wanted to have said you know what dr drew i think he charle

meantime the clock keeps ticking and still no final results in iowa where the 1st democratic party called because of the election season has been marred by a delayed vote counts. germany's ruling foundries party breaks its own pledge and unites with the right wing golds what it is for germany 2 hours do regional crimea. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me caring and we start with some news just in from turkey the death toll has risen to 3 hours after wednesday's plane crash in istanbul was according to the health ministry almost all of the remaining passengers and crew have sustained various injuries a passenger plane with $183.00 people on board overshot the runway while landing at istanbul's. an airport and broke into 3 pieces the fuselage of the boeing 737 burst into flames during the crash the plane belongs to pegasus alliance and was arriving from another turkish city near it's not clear what caused the accident although reports suggest that stormy weather may have played a role so be heard go catch an airport has been temporarily ground temporarily

the iowa democratic party. no doubt about that. but we shouldn't forget the iowa democratic party is not separate and apart from the democratic national committee. the chairman of the iowa democratic party is a member of the democratic national committee as are all state party chairman. so we do need to also hear from dnc chair tom perez at some point, there is going to be need to be a national party response to this moment to instill compensati competence going forward from here until the convention. >> how would that work? >> we're going to need a full detailed accounting of what went on, and we're going to need some kind of verifiable way as to how they counted this vote, because of that, as you know, the party said this morning, because they had the backup in place, of these paper cards, these preference cards, they are going to be able to actually verify and show that the count is accurate. that will give a lot of confidence to the campaigns, democrats, to the country at large. >> here is the problem, two

here's why i'm fascinated by this statement by the iowa democratic party. the expression says just like we would have on caucus night. what does that mean? i agree with jeff. my expectation is they're going to report all three of those things simultaneously as they plan to do, but the question is, just like we would have on caucus night, on caucus night, we would not have gotten 50-plus percent of the vote in one shot. as you know, it would roll in. 10% reporting, 20% -- so is this going to roll in by county and we're going to see it, or is this going to be one big dump of first round popular vote, final round popular vote and these percentages with more than 50%, but we don't know what state they're from and what is the makeup of these voters and is it representative of the whole state? i think we need a little more when they say just like we would have on caucus night, i think they need to explain, before we get to 5:00 eastern, how they intend to roll this out. >> okay, stand by. ahead, can the majority of results be as expected? . i need all the breaks,

should people be mad at the national democratic party? >> well, listen, i understand that is part of the job. what happened in iowa was unacceptable, and the party chair has acknowledged that. he's apologized for that, and we've worked together over the last few days to fix the challenges. and i'm very relieved that we now have 90 percent -- or 100% reported. at the same time, you know, there have been reports and we've seen in the tabulation process that there are -- there were some questions raised. there was an example of a precinct in plaqblackhawk where think 83 delegate equivalents were apportioned to deval patrick, which was a clear error. we have a shared interest in making sure we have accuracy. so what we did today in asking to make sure that if people need a re-canvass in this precinct or that precinct, that it's done because if people raise legitimate concerns about what happened in this precinct, we care about accuracy. that's why it took us longer, because our north star was indeed accuracy. >> are you calling for a statewid

the iowa democratic party said at 2:00 a.m. they had a conference call, we were on that, it was very brief, about 70 seconds long, didn't take questions. they said at 2:00 a.m. they would release the results, quote, later today. so 2:00 a.m., that was today, sometime today. we don't know anything more about the timetable at this point, and frankly in terms of what exactly went wrong here, you went through some of the basic issues that are out there. there are more questions than answers now. the iowa democratic party put out a couple of very brief statements last night. they were not responding to questions we posed. one thing that's notable at one point, they had encountered inconsistencies between three types of results. worth remembering, iowa has for the first time ever the idea here this year was to release, this is the state delegate count. that's what they've always done. 50 years, they had the state delegate equivalent they call them. but other things they were going to release the first time ever were the raw vote. you

the democratic party in addition, that means 5% to 6%. particularly, they need to do well in dates in the upper midwest and elsewhere. you're right that vermont is n t representative of america, but neither is ohio and michchigan d these other states.. in some parts of vermont, it really resembles some of these rural parts of america, sanders has over performed consistently. he is a person with a d-rating from the nra but positive for his control agenda from rural for much gun owners. i think that conversation might lead him to be competitive elsewhere. their other pathways to victory. he will probably fair a bit more plusy with $100,000 families, middle-class families in florida, for instance. maybe florida is more in a with biden. i think our multiple pathways for different democratic candididates, but i think sandes is a very clear one. amy: david frum, your response? >> i would in ththe sanders messagage is he is going to do a great job, he says, of mobilizing the last remains of the old white industrial l workg class in the areas whe

the story is going to be why couldn't the democratic party doa couldn't the democratic party do a betterjob? how strong is the correlation between whoever wins iowa winning the democratic party nomination itself? historically and a democratic party, very strong correlation. not so much on the republican side. this is because the republicans are caucusing as well. they have already had their caucus had tonight and they have overwhelmingly chosen donald trump as their candidate. in past years, some republicans have one and not gone on to win the nomination be pretty much for the democrat dominic democrats, they do go on to win the nomination, the exception was bill clinton and that is because an iowa and was running and he was a very popular iowa senator so there wasn't much point campaigning against him, but otherwise this should be a good predictor. hillary clinton one iowa, barack 0bama dead, but this time around, i don't think that candidate, whoever it finally turns out to be, is going to get much attention at all because then tomorrow we have the president's state of the union address a

how does the democratic party recover from this? >> as it has existed previous to now, it's not going to. one of two things is going to happen. this party is going to be taken over by the working-class sort of multiracial coalition that's behind this campaign, and i think that's what's going to happen. it's going to be the democratic party in the name still but it's going to be operated for a completely different set of interests organized is really almost a real labour party which the united states has never had. that's one possibility. or if that doesn't happen, then this is the democratic party's last chance to hold on to this coalition and the base is going to split into, and the democratic party is going to go the way of the whigs. >> tucker: i wish we had done this story more aggressively because i think you're absolutely right. great to see you. thank you. with the doors finally closed in the areas in iowa, able to release new fox news motor analytics. ""fox news @ night"" host shannon bream is here with those numbers. >> we

party headquarters, frustration, confusion, moments ago she learned the iowa democratic party is going to release data but only part of the data at 5:00 p.m. eastern just over two hours from now. alex rojas, your reaction? >> i mean, i think that's exactly right. it kind of doesn't really make sense to release 50% of it. you should try and release all of it when there's the american people and campaigns are trying to figure out who's winning, but i think that elizabeth warren's response here is being honest about the problems, giving the information that their campaign has over to the iowa democratic party, focusing on attacking trump, which is obviously what we need to do here, and also trying to make sure that as she gives comments, we're building trust and keeping trust within our public institutions. there's a real crisis of legitimacy right now. she's biluilt a campaign tackli corruption head on, and i think she might surprise folk when is we look at the final -- >> i'm worried they're going to make it worse. >> by only giving 50%? >> 50% of the data is meaningless. like the answe

democratic party officials have tried to verify data for several days after a technical glitch in the voting up for their caucus elections in iowa despite all precincts information now being in the final results remain unclear the party has apologized for mistakes in the past procedures and even called for a complete review of the voting i thought it was also marred by chaos in the reporting process inaccurate calculations on explaining consistencies and even missing data that all the while the campaign obsessed with suppose an external and interference. driven nightmare scenario and if so what do you do about it these are probably the most prepared we've ever been as a party for these caucuses and we've run through a few different scenarios put it. i can tell you were ready was the starting pistol and settle for race and at the end the prize is becoming a presidential nominee and that the finish line stand around and wait to find out who won. as precinct caucus results started coming in the iowa democratic party ran them through an accuracy and quality check it became clear that they

scientist troy price, iowa democratic party chair -- signed troy price, iowa democratic party chair. thank you. [applause] you might figure out who is footing most of the bill for this deal. the county gave us three envelopes and we get one for the state. do you want to just pass this around and contribute, if you can? has soon as we get these envelopes back, let's -- as soon as we get these envelopes back, let's get into our preference group. the heck with that. let's just to get into preference groups while these things are going around. i canks like -- from what tell, it looks like everybody has carved out their own little area. i would like to have the captain count thendidate number in their group once you determine who is in your group. and then i would like to have them come up and report it to me. get better equal how many people are here -- it better equal how many people are here. [laughter] [indiscernible crowd chatter] i have a question. are any undecided people here? yeah? find each other and see if you got 50. [laughter] [indiscernible crowd chatter] 30 9, 34, 35, 36, 3

the campaign manager, democratic party meltdown. they can't run a caucus and they want to run a government. no, thank you. is this going to make a difference for any democrats in iowa? i don't think so. but it's t-ball at this point. >> one of the failures at the caucus last night is bringing up bad memories from the barack obama screw-up. it's not a good place to be in, and with evidence or not, it gives the republicans something to feed on, and that's why senator warner is saying what he's saying. >> hold on one sec. i want to hold that thought. i want to go immediately back to jeff zeleny who is in des moines, iowa. the democratic party is trying to explain to the campaigns where they are in the process. jeff, what are we learning? >> reporter: john, we're learning the chair jack price telling campaigns and other democratic officials on the call that they plan to release the results at 4:00 p.m. central time here in des moines, 5:00 p.m. in the east, but he said they planned to release the majority of the results. we do not know

trump's impeachment what will we look at a week of frustrations for the us democratic party. of an alleged criminal who lived in hungry then france on a student visa reveal serious and apparent you could allow in terrorist. a key regional prime minister steps down in germany straight after being elected over fury from both top politicians and the public over a pact chancellor merkel's party and the rightwing alternative to germany that brought out. other great to have you with us you watching the weekly here on r.t. . it has been a tough week for the us democratic party and its officials trying to verify data for several days after a technical glitch in the voting out for their caucus elections in iowa despite all precinct information now being in the final result remains unclear the party apologized for mistakes in the procedures even calling for a complete review of the voting tally itself is also marred by chaos in the reporting process in accurate calculations unexplained consistencies and missing data did all the while the party obsessed with supposed external interferen

this is very bad for the democratic party that it is all taking so long. we have had all taking so long. we have had a statement from the iowa democratic party. the integrity of the result is paramount. we have experienced a delay in the result due to quality checks and the fact that the iowa democratic party is reporting on three data sets for the first time. 4% of districts have reported an early output is on pace with 2017. i saw the head of the democratic committee in charge of this and he was saying to me that he was confident or concerned about security and everything else had been met and that the system would be robust. looking a little less robust now. in the great swing of things, if we get the results in 15 minutes it does not matter so much but if it goes on and on, as he was saying, it was always very odd that the state of the union had been called for tomorrow night, which will wipe out a lot of the victory speech is when the democrats would have had their place in the sun. if all they get, is that they could not deliver the results, donald t

keeps ticking on still no final result in where the 1st democratic party caucus 2020. has been marred by the latest polls. people in germany where the ruling centrist party. but the right wing alternative for germany the premier of a local region. sport is rocked by scandal as a former champion figure skater publishes rape allegations against her coach which she alleges 1st took place when she was 15. live from our international news center in moscow this is our welcome wherever you're watching us from today my name's o'neill we begin with some breaking news on the program from turkey and iran 140 people injuries after a passenger plane overshot the runway while istanbul's. port this we're looking right now. images from there the boeing 737 sustained extensive damage to his fuselage to the main body of the plane which burst into flames during the crash the governor of. all 183 people on board. crew members were evacuated and the plane belonged to pegasus early lines and was arriving from another city is near it's not clear what caused the accident although reports sugg

>> my interaction was not with the iowa democratic party it was with the polk county democrat. the chair and executive director, i believe, did a really good yob in training. there were trainings weeks in advance, five days a week on how to do things. the app was not from polk county but from the state party. again, i'm not part of the party. obviously i'm a supporter of the iowa democrats. but like a lot of things, prior planning prevents poor performance. i have no firsthand knowledge of what the actual problem was but i just -- it's upsetting me a little bit that there's a lot of talk today about literally throwing the baby out with the bath water. i think if we look at itveeen r neighborhood there was a desire to get the results as fast and efficiently as possible. they had an app in 2008. i seem to remember there were some problems. not, apparently, as catastrophic as what we just experienced but again, they were reporting a lot more information. and i can understand the collective -- the problem. >> so do you think that the results, when they do come out, are you confiden

party is going to release the democratic party in two rounds, and let me explain why. there are two rounds of voting in the iowa caucuses and when the caucusgoers are going into the room they express the initial preference and then a tab ulation to determine which candidates are not viable if they don't hit 15% in most room, and then they have a chance to realign with a candidate that is viable, and then a final round of voting. so we will see if they can produce a first-round popular vote, and the final-round popular vote and the state delegates that we use to determine the winner of the iowa caucuses. >> thank you, david chalian. and john king, we have had this conversation 24 hours ago or so, and what are you looking for in these results? >> hopefully groundhog day is over. and so what is the scope? results from all across the state which is partial in some of the counties or here, there, there. and that is one thing, and how much do we get whand do we get? that is what we will look for when it is filling in. and dark blue is joe biden, and purple is michael bloombe

party actually believes in democracy now fine he don't he's not a registered democrat ok but democrats want to vote for him ok that's what the process is all about so i mean again this is probably one of the problematic areas of the democratic party is that rigging it again and right in front of us and getting away with it but d.n.c. flies into iowa where it takes care of the elect accounting of the votes i mean you know that's like putting tony soprano on the supreme court go ahead most palm beach . and it is if and when we watched you know i think that lack of authenticity is what the american people have woken up to and you know when we watched nancy the other night and the democrats who didn't stand you know for a little who are all who is getting educational opportunities which is something that the democrats have for ever. said they espouse we watch you know the to ski area being applauded and the democrats you know half of them are sitting there lackluster and i'm thinking we have it here and the president's talking about environmental policy that he's frankly breaking apart fro

and democrats -- and i come from family of democrats -- the democratic party should be ashamed of itself that it's in this situation. maria: you say oligarch, i thought it was interesting when the news first broke that he's considering choosing hillary clinton, a lot of people quelled, wait a second, you're not supposed to have two candidates from the same state. they're both from new york. so that was very quickly changed by michael bloomberg saying, apparently, i've got a home in colorado and florida, i'll change my address to say that i'm florida. can he do that? >> this is what oligarchs do. on tuesday night, march 3rd at midnight when the california polls close out west, the democratic party will have a democratic socialist and a liberal mayor -- republican mayor of new york as the two top guys running for the primary. there won't be any democrats around. i believe that bill clinton's fingerprints are all over this. i think you can see bill clinton trying to get hillary back in the game, and i said back in august and i've said for a year since -- remember, trump would be impeached i

party actually believes in democracy now fine he don't he's not a registered democrat ok but democrats want to vote for him ok that's what the process is all about so i mean again this is probably one of the problematic areas of the democratic party is that rigging it again and right in front of us and getting away with it but d.n.c. flies into iowa where it takes care of the elect accounting of the votes i mean you know that's like putting tony soprano on the supreme court go ahead most palm beach . and it is if and when we watched you know i think that lack of authenticity is what the american people have woken up to and you know when we watched nancy the other night and the democrats who didn't stand you know for a little who are all who is getting educational opportunities which is something that the democrats have for ever. said they espouse only watch you know the to ski area being applauded and the democrats you know half of them are sitting there lackluster and i'm thinking we have it here and the president's talking about environmental policy that he's frankly breaking apart f

but the democratic party has two jobs in november. they have to not only try to carry this state because it is carriable. barack obama carried it. they also have to try to win a senate seat. joni ernst is up. she's been kind of mocking and trying to egg on joe biden in these caucuses, and this wasn't a good night for a party that needs to do those two jobs. and i'll say another thing that, you know, i mean it's not counterintuitive. iowa can only tell you a certain number of things. but one of the things it can tell you is kind of the general mood of a sort of moderate white american voter. and i want to bring -- i don't have the numbers in front of me, but steve kornacki earlier talked about the difference in the number of people, the number of humans who showed up in '08 versus '16 versus now. and if it's flat to '16, democrats should take note of that, right? there's not a surge of sort of middle of the road white voters eager and desperate to get rid of donald trump, at least not from what i'm seeing in terms of the turnout here.

in my introduction i kind of last week or 2 we were rhetorical e is the democratic party imploding maybe i should say exploding what's going on i mean you know what you're in a hole the best thing to do is stop diggin and it doesn't seem like that's happening go ahead garland well i'm at a point where you know maybe we're wrong to define this thing as a party you know my background is in law enforcement and you know we enforced rico laws racketeering influenced corrupt organization laws this is a corrupt organization well there's the evidence that at the end is a corrupt organization exactly like this so i think we have to redefine it i don't . right i don't think that there's a separation between the impeachment and between what happened in iowa this is this is all evidence of a organization that has collapsed and what we're seeing now they're not collapsing this is post collapse this is an evidence of that the party has intellectually and morally collapsed ok charles jump in in new york here i guess i we could end the program now he said basically why but i wanted to have said you know

the iowa democratic party. so as i said earlier, the basic question. 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

party because there are enough bernie sanders supporters who believe that the democratic party isn't fully behind the idea of sanders. winning the nomination we had john kerry a former nominee himself former secretary of state seeing in a hotel here in iowa in the last few days that it looks as if bernie sanders is going to be the nominee then he will get into the fight that as far as many barely supporters of concerned is the establishment walking against the grassroots of the party so if this turns out to be the final result and people to judge when's we know he's had a good campaign we thought he was going to do well but if it ends up he talks bernie sanders this is just does going to cause more chaos in the democratic party and the biggest beneficiary of that will be the trump campaign you know donald trump's having a really good week he's got 97 cents of percent support here in the iowa caucuses there's a new report out today that puts his approval rating at the highest ever and he's about to speak to tens of millions of americans by delivering the state of the union speech in a

get back to where our roots are at the democratic party and the roots of the democratic party believe in fundamental policy and values. it believes that we all do better when we all do better. it believes that we are the party that stands up to be corporations and fights for the little guy. and if we go to our small town and trust me, there are plenty of conversations and i'll tell one brief one and then we'll open it up for questions that happen in our community and a detail the story in the book. i went to a small town in nebraska, they were fighting the costco to complete, and that night they were going to have a vote on the zoning and whether or not they would approve costco to come in and build a huge plant in order process up to 2 million, i am not making that up, 2 million chickens, not a year, not a month but a week, they want to process 2 million chickens a week. if you know anything about agriculture if you know you if you can process 2 million chickens and raise 2 million chickens and a small area is not good for the soil, land, water or the farmers who have to grow them. s

she's pu from different parts of the democratic party. you cannot count her out.ll new hampshire e a test. it's a neighboring state to massachusetts as well as being a neighboring states tator sanders and his home state of vermont. >> brangham: all right. bob costa of the "washington post" and washington week, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: we can never know how the eyes of history will look back on the present, but we can be sure this was a consequential week that exposes the deep divisions in our nation. we want to take a step back now to reflect on how this momolt in americanics compares to the past wit presidential historian michael beschloss. ellen fitzpatrick, an author and political historian at the university of new hampshire. and carolyn lukensmeyer, executive director emirita at ive national institute for discourse, at the university of arizona.me and we welll three of you back to the news hour. michael, let me begin with you. has this been as consequential a week as those of us who cover all of this l the time th

party actually believes in democracy now fine he don't he's not a registered democrat ok but democrats want to vote for him ok that's what the process is all about so i mean again this is probably one of the problematic areas of the democratic party is that rigging it again and right in front of us and getting away with it but d.n.c. flies into iowa and takes care of the elect accounting of the votes i mean you know that's like putting tony soprano on the supreme court go ahead most palm beach. and it is if and when we watched you know i think that lack of authenticity is what the american people have woken up to and you know when we watched nancy the other night and the democrats who didn't stand you know for a little who are all who is getting educational opportunities which is something that the democrats have for ever. said they espouse only watch you know the to ski area being applauded and the democrats you know half of them are sitting there lackluster and i'm thinking wait a bit you know and the president's talking about environmental policy that he's frankly breaking apart fro

of the democratic party, a major fundraising dinner of the year. every president, every vice president, and anybody who seriously wants to be president has attended this dinner. steve: let's talk about the naming of the dinner. we know senator jean shaheen, but who was thomas mcintyre? a senator mcintyre was founder of the rebirth of the democratic party in the 1940's and 1950's and 1960's. myrtle mcintyre was a member of the democratic national committee while senator mcintyre was in the senate. he served three terms in the u.s. senate by winning a special election in 1962 and being reelected in 1966 1972 and ultimately losing to gordon humphrey in 1978 in a very close race. and now gordon humphrey is a never-trumperr -- who left the republican party and is trying to get people not to vote for donald trump, interesting turn of events over the decades. steve: this race is fluid and you have been through a lot of campaigns, 19 92 with bill clinton the comeback kid, 2008 when hillary clinton eked it out, explain the significance of how volatile it is

the state party -- the state democratic party said a problem was caused by inconsistencies among data sets. for hours the party claimed quality control was slowing the a release. >> the delay leaving candidates frustrated and their supporters waiting late into the night with nothing to celebrate. at a call 2:00 a.m. eastern with party officials campaigns raised concerns about the integrity of the results. the party chair said heults lat. >> we want to emphasize this is reportsing issue, not a hack, and it's exactly why and systeme to up hold the integrity of our process. >> so some changes to that process prch for the first time precincts were required to report three separate numbers. voters first precherance, second preference and delegate count from each precinct. reports were supposed to be reported to a mobile app but some precincts abandoned it opting to call into their hot line as usual except they were left waiting for hours on end on those hot lines. >> i have been on hold for over an hour with the iowa democratic party. they tried to i think promote an app to report the resu

democratic party faithful. a result of the iowa caucus but still only 75 percent of precincts giving. a narrow lead of 27 percent but the party has been reeling from glitches in its new which was meant to deliver results. of a nightmare scenario and if so what do you do about it these are probably the most prepared we've ever been as a party for these caucuses and we've run through a few different scenarios but i can tell you we're ready. i'd settle for a race and at the end the prize is becoming the presidential nominee and that the finish line. then wait to find out who won. it's precinct caucus results started coming in the iowa democratic party ran them through an accuracy and quality check it became clear that they were in consistencies with reports the underlying cause of these in consistencies was not immediately clear and required investigation which took time this is an embarrassment all they had to do was count of votes the polling stations counted the votes all they had to do was add together the tal

the us democratic party has suffered an embarrassing. the result of the 1st major vote in the 2020 primary season has been delayed due to a crippling technical glitch are not expected to be announced until choose the evening a full 24 hours later well donald trump was quick to comment on the turmoil at the iowa caucus taking to twitter as you can see his saying on the democrats' apparent ineptitude meanwhile in the absence of any official results to the party's presidential hopefuls decided to claim victory for themselves. so we don't hear results. by all indications we are going to new hampshire victoria. due to the failure of the iowa democratic party to release results tonight and in the interest of full transparency bernie sanders a senior advisor jeff weaver is releasing results from nearly 40 percent of precincts in i want results have been delayed so they'll be coming but they'll be coming later nevertheless this is this is a huge embarrassment for the democratic party this this is an awful start to the to the nomination process b

should they trust the democratic party? sen. sanders: i think what you should trust, number one, and i really do feel bad for the people of iowa. i have been all over the state as you well know. i think we held 120 rallies and town meetings and these are serious people. they are trying to do the best i -- -- the best they can in determining the best candidate for the president is. i think what has happened the iowa democratic party is an outrage. they were that unprepared, that they put forth such a complicated process and relied on untested technology. and also to be honest with you, they have relied on thousands of volunteers, good people who have , to get up and get to work the next day. to do what is enormously complicated. i think there is very little doubt that what happened on monday night, that type of process, that complicated process i don't that will happen again. reporter: mayor pete has been declaring a win for days now. why should people believe your victory speech over his? sen. sanders: because i've got 6000 more

they determine who the party chair is, the rules of the islet democratic party. so as i said earlier, in terms of the basic question coming out of bio how many delegates do we have? how many elizabeth have? counted his people to judge hapless mark that is not determined by the sde's. so i do think it's fair to say that we won the caucus. >> was or something specific, you talked about a multiracial grassroots movement in iowa. whether something specific you did in iowa either targeting certain communities are certain part of the state that you want to survey doing again down the road and the other states? >> the whole cost of water campaign is about is to understand that in america we have one of the lowest voter turnout of any major country on earth. the reason for that are many fold. one of them is that a whole lot of working-class people here in new hampshire, vermont, all over the country are working two or three jobs. they can't afford childcare, they spent half of their income and housing, they can't afford to send their kids to college, and they are saying

means on the clock keeps ticking on still low final results in iowa where the 1st democratic party core because of the election season has been marred by a delayed votes count. and germany's ruling centrist party breaks its own pledge and unites with the right wing alternative for germany to oust a regional premier. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with mina karen and our top story this hour the u.s. senate voted to acquit president trump ending the 3rd impeachment trial in u.s. history mr trump faced 2 charges from democrats abuse of power and obstruction of congress which stemmed from his dealings with ukraine callup more can has the details. impeachment proceedings have come to their ultimate conclusion donald trump was acquitted on both charges abuse of power and obstruction of congress however even though it was a quick vote with very little unexpected activities there was certainly plenty of debate in the lead up to the ultimate vote and conclusion the proceedings this is some of what we heard in your hatred of the trial of his bloody jew to the obviou

we have zero official data from the iowa democratic party at this point. while we feel great about our performance last night and our internal information showed we are outperformed in a lot of places in the state where we didn't expect to, we will have our fair share of the delegates coming out of iowa, there are serious questions about the process and during this time where we have no official verified information from the iowa democratic party, we have, you know, campaigns putting out incomplete -- incomplete data that doesn't paint a full picture. >> based on what you saw last night, how do you feel about iowa going first in the future? >> well, look, i think anybody who watched that process last night would have some concerns with how that played out. for us we're focused on the campaign at hand, we are here in new hampshire, we will be campaigning hard for the next week and then on to nevada and south carolina and beyond. >> you always talk about the long road, about this being a long process. one might think that you only talk about a long road if y

just democrats it's going to take the democratic party a long time to figure out that the trump working class are just republicans well and also the focus on workers who is what i'm really glad that john brought up the working people is to define do over time because of technology but families creating families keeping families together the opiate crisis real problems that affect real people ok and you know and i'll get in trouble for saying this not just transgender toilets ok maybe that's there but it's not the high end and i think this is what trump and bernie sanders are doing and i hope to see them face off in november us all the time we have many thanks to my guest in atlanta washington and in stroudsburg and thanks to our viewers for watching us here to see you next time and remember. you. now it's 2020 we have the global potential pandemic here and people's fear is compound it by the fact that nothing in the global economy is anchored to anything of solidity and so you have this room are shriveling paranoia by disorientation in a world bereft of any kind of solid anchor and it's

now, as the democratic party, here's what we can't do. we can't go into towns in west virginia and pennsylvania and ohio and wyoming and other places where folks for generations are lived and worked in oil rigs and oil fields and coal mines and tell them that their jobs were meaningless or that their jobs were killing americans. like, they have a sense of love and tradition for their work just as much as randy is and chairman wright have for their work as well. so what we need to do -- and we can't just say simple solution, which is what i hear sometimes, well, we just need a transition. those folks can be retrained to put solar on rooftops. like, okay. [laughter] coal workers make $75 an hour, and they have really good pension and health benefits. and solar and win jobs aren't unionized yet. so if we're serious about making this just transition, that means coal and oil workers have to be at the same table that environmentalists and farmers and ranchers are at so we're building this new clean energy grid and infrastructure that actually h

group well they got behind the free democratic party candidates really worth pointing out the free democrats only picked up 5 seats in the to enter parliament when the public voted back in october but it looks like their man will be the new state premier lots of controversy this has sparked the outgoing state premier of of the left party has called it a disgusting charade the election of mr kerik while the twitter page of the left party has been publishing remark searchers the free democratic party would choose to rule with fascists then not after all of course it wasn't just the f. date that got behind mr. kennedy of the free democrats also the christian. democratic union representatives in the state of turning your world their party leader and. widely tipped as a potential successor to our chancellor of germany said the regional party representatives acted against the well against the rules in the words of central office. this is not a good day this is not a good day for touring this is not a good day for the political system in germany which is also seeing protests both in the state of th

the democratic party is divided against itself, left versus center left. the candidate once seen as having the best chance of beating president trump is in a freefall and low on money. they are terrified of a sanders nomination but at a loss for how to stop him. president trump was acquitted of impeachment charges, his poll numbers are climbing and he's feeling as confident as ever. tuesday's primary may be among the state's most consequential in quite some time as voters clarify the direction of the democratic race, or not. >> billionaires by the dozens are contributing to pete buttigieg. >> the two front-runners now taking each other on on the trail -- >> you have to take on these people, not take money from them. >> we cannot risk dividing americans' future further, saying that you must either be for a revolution or you must be for the status quo. >> and on stage -- >> a politics that says it's my way or the highway. >> are you talking about senator sanders? >> yes. >> i don't have 40 billionaires, pete, contributing to my campaign. >> after a fourth pl

a nominee well to be very clear one democratic state party organization the i would democratic party chose a terrible app and that really doesn't have much to say about the rest of the democratic party or the way the federal government is run under the democratic party so i think is mixing up the campaign from campaign is mixing up a couple very distinct organizations some have questioned why should actually be the 1st round of announcements given its demographics that are not really representative of the base of the democratic party can't can iowa be an indicator really for the rest of the country. i agree with those critics the caucus system is old antiquated and inaccessible as you mentioned only a few states still do it and they do it out of tradition this is a kind of system where very few people participate because it is difficult to participate they actually run the iowa caucus better before they started doing some of these reforms but the point is you can't slap in to an old an antiquated system and hope that it is that it becomes more accessible or more transparent the probl

they have unleashed the genie from the bottle and the democratic party as a socialist party. so you have the establishment democrats in new york and washington, d.c. they are panicked because they don't want bernie to get the nomination, but they don't have an alternative. i hate to say it, but joe biden, we can say it nicely, but he's not clicking. how about that? is that a nice way to say it? michael bloomberg got eviscerated by his own lack of planning the other night at the debate. >> sean: go home and die? he is literally on tape saying go home and died. go to your family, live long, you know, larry, listen, i understand, to me the comments of bloomberg are not about race, not about stop and frisk. all night, we only our best minority kids. we only throw minority kids against the wall. when we put cops in minority not listen to him. >> they are in serious trouble. >> sean: we will cover this debate tomorrow, matt. >> no, this is over. you cannot escape those words. at least, no republican would for sure. wait until you see this, fake news cnn, really sick, weird bizarre

democratic party. do voice there. great to see you. >> good seeing you. >> harris: the president called the unmitigated disaster. and then from inside your own party, a mess, and a lot of really other unkind things. how big a deal is this going forward? >> i think short time it's a huge deal. i'm a former state party chair. it's stressful putting on a presidential primary in and of itself. this is 100 times worse, because the world is watching. these candidates have been campaigning for over a year. volunteers raising money. it's almost anticlimactic. in fact, it is anticlimactic, because you don't have a winner, you don't have a victory speech. they have no information about which candidate, those four leading candidates, were bunched up. we have no pathway forward politically, at least not that we know of. long-term, we get the results this evening. hopefully -- >> harris: no, no, no. we get the majority of those results. that's part of the problem. we don't even know what the end results will be. things weren't bro

so perhaps some word night be coming from the iowa democratic party this morning. but a question is, will there be a full release of the results or will there be a partial release. and this -- all is coming because of a variety of factors here. let's sort of walk through what is at play here and why this happened as it did. first of all, it's the inconsistencies in the reporting. the iowa democratic party for the first time was reporting three separate numbers. it was the popular vote if you will of the people coming into the precinct on the first alignment, the second alignment and the third number from the state delegates that are awarded and that is how the winner is chosen. think of it like the electoral college. the second is the app. we heard a variety of problems for several days and certainly throughout the day yesterday there was a problem with the app. now party officials have said that it was working fine. they were trying to work through it. but the app was supposed to be used on someone's phone to report the results in the variety of precincts across i

it's to happen i think for the democratic party if they want to stave off. bernie sanders right now he's very very strong position to move ahead of going and super tuesday he's estimated to win 13 of the 15 states that are play there so a very very strong position for sinners going to say on march the marshall or if you want to watch it all right thanks for having a kiss. or 14 in italy had imposed a travel ban on about a dozen towns in the north of the country and if it to prevent the spread of the coronavirus to paypal in italy infected with the virus have died and officials there are reporting about 80 confirmed cases some 50000 people are affected by the lockdown which is near the city of milan the small town of condone you know is at the epicenter of the outbreak there. the streets of code don't you know were empty on saturday evening people in a dozen towns in northern italy were told to stay indoors after a local woman died presumably from the coronavirus oh you know. we still can't say whether she died of the corona virus or whether she had the coron

of the democratic party. after the coup, whites had to figure out the democratic party they had to figure out how to permanently violate to keep blacks from voting. those were used to keep blacks from voting. it also affected white voters. they were illiterate lit, a quarter of the whites were illiterate. a lot of whites were also part. so daniels had to go to louisiana which the year before, had been the grandfather clause was a brilliant piece of legislation. that law in louisiana said any person whose father or grandfather had murdered before 1867 would be exempt in 1868 was the year of the vote. so obviously that law exempted people from voting. they thought it was wonderful that the democratic party sent him together to do what they portrayed as an investigation on this. and daniels didn't want to pay for it. he broke these amazing stories about how wonderful the grandfather clause was and how it had completely stuff that the black vote. instead we've really got to go back to north carolina and in 1900 t

vaughn, you've been talking to the democratic party there. you were rooted in iowa for many months and certainly for several years before that -- >> we're still here. >> yes. your third year in iowa. let's talk about what the campaign is telling the candidates. because they still have not produced the results that have been promised. >> there's a call between the campaigns and the iowa democratic party that is slated to take place any minute. this would be the third such call between the iowa democratic party and these campaigns. the question is, what sort of information is iowa democratic party able to offer up to these campaigns. the first two calls insighted frustration. it was not unlike that that the one press call that has taken place, lasted a little over a minute yesterday. so we're waiting to hear the details that come from the iowa democratic party. we should note they intended to release results today, but i had conversations with democratic party officials and these votes are not only still coming in, the paper trail as well as in