every 4 years iowa jealously guards the gateway to the white house iowa has done a good job of narrowing the field and i think iowans know we aren't selecting the nominees or selecting the president we're helping test who has a good message that resonates across the parties who will do well on a national stage in iowa votes in its own peculiar way the iowa caucuses here at the state historical museum of iowa what they're trying to explain it with an exhibit it works like this unlike political party primaries run by the state with secret ballots driven by t.v. ads numbers but the iowa caucuses are run by the democratic and republican parties for republicans by secret ballot for democrats publicly. iowans demand hand to hand contact iowa his turn underdogs like jimmy carter and barack obama up into winners. and bernie sanders headquarters they're looking to redeem a stinging loss in 2016 and the self-proclaimed socialist revolutionary and establishment candidate joe biden are trading front runner status. as the caucuses don't work like voting in most states with primaries and secret ballot

i'm here see an endo how with the al-jazeera news are coming up for you in the next 60 minutes the iowa caucus gets underway senator bernie sanders leads in the earliest results from iowans taking part thousands of miles away a major escalation in northern syria turkey says it's retaliated after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians are killed in syrian shelling crushing demonstrations in iraq protesters fear their movement has been taken over answered another $64.00 people have died from corona virus in the province at the center of the outbreak in china plus an election victory overturns malawi's constitutional court and nullifies the $2900.00 result and orders a rerun. well the race to just sign it it will be the democratic challenger in the embers us presidential election is that underway candidates are facing the 1st big test in iowa the results are seen as an indicator over who will go on to face donald trump in the ember now unlike primaries these are caucuses won by the parties themselves people meets in small gatherings in churches and town halls rather than in official polling ce

votes in its own peculiar way the iowa caucuses here in the state historical museum of iowa what they're trying to explain it with an exhibit it works like this unlike political party primaries run by the state with secret ballots driven by t.v. ads numbered samples the iowa caucuses are run by the democratic and republican parties for republicans by secret ballot for democrats publicly. and iowans demand hand to hand contact iowa has turned underdogs like jimmy carter and barack obama. into winners. at bernie sanders headquarters they're looking to redeem a stinging loss in 2016 and the self-proclaimed socialist revolutionary and establishment candidate joe biden are trading front runner status. the caucuses don't work like voting in most states with primaries and secret ballots republicans will caucus to mostly for president donald trump democrats will argue for their candidates bill bigger than vote this year iowa has new rules some caucuses are so small voters putting name in a hat if any of those candidates get less than 15 percent of the vote. those votes are tossed out and those v

state capital des moines iowa official reports. are. it was a night of frustration and questions in iowa after people cast their votes in the democratic caucuses the process of adding them up and sending them to headquarters was plagued with technical issues it created a terrible image as the country watched the 1st real contests that the 2020 election turned into a farce. the candidates decided to claim victory live on leaving iowa and its problems behind. bernie sanders is looking like the eventual winner the self described democratic socialist finished a not 0 2nd 4 years ago now he believes he's taken a big step to securing the democratic nomination to do you more the beginning of the end for donald trump was here mose dangerous president in modern american history the biggest loser of the night is shaping up to be former vice president joe biden for a man who campaigned on electability it's not clear if you even finish in the top 3 normally that would kill a campaign he played to continue so it's on a new hampshire the of i wa

and new hampshire is not the kind of place to let iowa or anybody else tell you what to do. bernie sanders was only 0 point one percent behind in iowa the 78 year old has strong grassroots support from the left and he's attacked rivals from taking support from wealthy donors and i'm reading some headlines from newspapers about the. most exclusive billionaire donors of any democrat let's let was from forbes the hill. tops billionaire donor list well elizabeth warren who is also from the left of the party finished 3rd in iowa she's been struggling to shake off criticism about how to fund her medicare for all plan and also seeking to recover from the slump is former vice president joe biden who finished 4th in iowa but he's seen by many senior democrats as the person who could beat donald trump in november well let's speak now to john netanya he's a democratic strategist and a former communications director at the democratic national committee and he now joins us live from washington d.c. john thanks for joining us this evening you were just to shape messaging florida here the

spent nearly $80000000.00 on iowa t.v. and radio ads in the lead up to the votes now we have 2 correspondents following developments in iowa in a moment we'll hear from john hendren who's with people taken parts in the caucus but 1st let's bring in our own fisher allan those caucuses are no underway is there any indication at this stage as to his ahead. well i can tell you it's not just the democrats that are caucusing tonight the republicans are as well if you take a look at the big screen behind me here in the media center you can see that as far as the republicans are concerned donald trump is running away with the as we expected he would 70 percent of counties reporting he's got 96.85 percent of the vote that kind of reflects exactly his level of support in the republican party at the moment is close and closest challenger is former massachusetts governor william weld he'll be hoping to do better next week in new hampshire but donald trump is the incumbent so to suggest that he wasn't going to win would just have been

all about credibility that allen says have for us in iowa thanks very much allan. plenty happening in u.s. politics back in washington the republican and democratic leaders of the senate have traded barbs ahead of wednesday's vote in the impeachment trial of donald trump now trump is widely expected to be acquitted on charges of abuse of power and the obstruction of congress last week the senate rejected the chance to hear from additional witnesses senate republican leader mitch mcconnell denounced the democrats' move to impeach trump while the minority leader chuck schumer accused the republicans of hiding the truth it's hard to believe that house democrats ever really thought this reckless and precedent breaking process would yield $67.00 votes across the rubicon was their vision so clouded by partisanship that they really believed they really believed this would be anywhere near enough for the 1st presidential removal in american history or was the point was this all an effort to hijack our institution for a month long political rally the majority leader can com

gets off to a chaotic start in iowa. also this hour we'll tell you why people in malawi are celebrating after months of on rest over last year's presidential election and the kenyan government declares a period of national mourning after the death of longtime president out. simmered with the asian champions league is the latest competition to be affected by the coronavirus with all matches involving chinese clubs postponed until april. thank you very much for joining us the world health organization says the corona virus that's killed hundreds of people in infected thousands is showing no signs of mutation and has not caused a pandemic the global death toll stands at 427 all but 2 of those have been recorded in mainland china more than 20000 people have been infected and they're now examples of 2 people contracting the virus without being in china one got sick in thailand the other in singapore and a cruise ship is under quarantine at a port in japan a pass. joe who got off the ship in hong kong was later confirmed with

presidential election has had a stumble on the 1st day results from this election in iowa couldn't be declared on monday night now local party officials blame inconsistences and reporting the council say they need more time president trump has weighed in we'll get more on his reaction from john hendren who's standing by in des moines iowa but 1st this report from allen fessor. was. it was a night of frustration and questions in iowa after people cast their votes in the democratic caucuses the process of adding them up and sending them to headquarters was plagued with technical issues it created a terrible image as the country watched the 1st real contest that the 2020 election tun into a farce. the candidate's decided to claim victory and move on leaving iowa and its problems behind bernie sanders is looking like the eventual winner of the self described democratic socialist finished another 2nd 4 years ago now he believes he's taken a big step to securing the democratic nomination to gain marks the beginning of the end but donald trump was. here mose dangerous president in modern ame

democratic presidential hopefuls but on monday in iowa voters get their 1st chance to take up iowa is a small state but it's important in the election process whoever wins that could have huge momentum al-jazeera as john hendren explains. every 4 years iowa jealously guards the gateway to the white house iowa has done a good job of narrowing the field and i think iowans know we aren't selecting the nominees or selecting the president we're helping test who has a good message that resonates across the parties who will do well on a national stage and iowa votes in its own peculiar way the iowa caucuses here at the state historical museum of iowa what they're trying to explain it with an exhibit it works like this unlike political party primaries run by the state with secret ballots driven by t.v. ads for the iowa caucuses are run by the democratic and republican parties for republicans by secret ballot for democrats publicly. and iowans demand hand to hand contact ioway has turned underdogs like jimmy carter and barack obama. into winners. and bernie sanders headquarters they're looking

every 4 years iowa jealously guards the gateway to the white house iowa has done a good job of narrowing the field and i think iowans know we aren't selecting the nominees or selecting the president we're helping test who has a good message that resonates across the parties who will do well on a national stage and iowa votes in its own peculiar way the iowa caucuses here at the state historical museum of iowa what they're trying to explain it with an exhibit it works like this unlike political party primaries run by the state with secret ballots driven by t.v. ads. the iowa caucuses are run by the democratic and republican parties for republicans by secret ballot for democrats publicly. iowans demand hand to hand contact iowa his turn underdogs like jimmy carter and barack obama up into winners. and bernie sanders headquarters there looking to redeem a stinging loss in 2016 and the self-proclaimed socialist revolutionary and establishment candidate joe biden are trading frontrunner status. the caucuses don't work like voting in most states with primaries on secret ballots. publicans will

every 4 years iowa jealously guards the gateway to the white house iowa has done a good job of narrowing the field and i think iowans know we aren't selecting the nominees or selecting the president we're helping test who has a good message that resonates across the parties who will do well on a national stage and iowa votes in its own peculiar way the iowa caucuses here at the state historical museum of iowa what they're trying to explain it with an exhibit it works like this unlike political party primaries run by the state with secret ballots driven by t.v. ads numbers than the iowa caucuses are run by the democratic and republican parties for republicans by secret ballot for democrats publicly. and iowans demand hand to hand contact iowa his turn underdogs like jimmy carter and barack obama up into winners. and bernie sanders headquarters they're looking to redeem a stinging loss in 2016 and the self-proclaimed socialist revolutionary and establishment candidate joe biden are trading front runner status. the caucuses don't work like voting in most states with primaries on secret ball

i'm alan fischer in iowa where they're about to cast the 1st votes in the 2020 u.s. presidential election campaign it's not fox because it's important it's important because it sparks. and installed the banks down spanking against the phoenix suns he has action from the n.b.a. . welcome back to international weather forecasts were here across turkey in coming days we're going to be seeing more weather in terms of rain snow as well as winds we do have a system coming out of europe making its way towards the southeast and you can see here on tuesday not looking too bad but by the time we do get to wednesday we do pick up a lot more snow a lot more winds across much of the area as well as we are going to 6 rain pushing through parts of istanbul heavy rain across the southern coast as well and we're going to sing our current though those temperatures are going to be diving by the time we get towards thursday. starting at 12 going to 15 on wednesday changing to snow by the time we get to thursday where the temps are about 3 degrees there well the northeastern part of afri

all this primary next week and what impact will this iowa debacle in this iowa chaos have on the rest of the nomination process. well we're already seeing how it's going to have an impact because after new hampshire which is a street primary so that is over several hours people go in the cast their vote is just like any other election so that will be a relatively clean relatively simple operation and that will give us a very clear idea of with the democratic party in new hampshire there's always a can a rule result in new hampshire so we don't pee too much. too much stock and it will certainly give us an idea of the state of the race the next one after that is in nevada and guess what yes it's another caucus and they have already said look we are not going to use the technology that was used in iowa we are using a completely separate system and i'm sure every single campaign if not every single democrat is going to thank goodness for that because we really can't afford another mess up like this lou in a month's time what we're going to be on super tuesday is exactly 4 weeks from today

iowa is not 1st because it's important it's important because its 1st iowa has been the 1st in the nation contest since 1972 that's because its caucus process is drawn out and complicated presidential campaigns can spark into life here or be extinguished that gives people incredible power one report suggests voters in iowa have 20 times more influence than almost any other state the weight and meaning of iowa is really supplied by our national media establishment this is the 1st time they have hard results from actual voters and so it's just as an opportunity to essentially understand where these candidates are in the race iowa is predominately white it's mainly rudel as few big industries essentially it doesn't look a lot like the rest of america there are plenty who would like to see the 1st contest held in the state this more representative of america as a whole but that's simply not going to happen if somewhere were to move its primary or its caucuses in iowa would move it so and because the state law says it always has to be 1st. the people here insist they take their responsibilitie

iowa is not 1st because it's important it's important because its 1st iowa has been the 1st in the nation contest since 1972 that's because its caucus process is drawn out and complicated presidential campaigns can spark into life here or be extinguished that gives people incredible power one report suggests voters in iowa have 20 times more influence than almost any other state the weight and meaning of iowa is really supplied by our national media establishment this is the 1st time they have hard results from actual voters and so if you just as an opportunity to essentially understand where these candidates are in the race iowa is predominately white it's mainly rudel has few big industries essentially it doesn't look a lot like the rest of america there are plenty who would like to see the 1st contest held in the state this more representative of america as a whole but that's simply not going to happen if somewhere were to move its primary or its caucuses in iowa would move it so and because the state law says it always has to be 1st. the people here insist they take their responsibili

state of iowa are taking part in the iowa caucuses the 1st electoral test for democratic candidates who want to challenge donald trump for the white house what happens in iowa does not decide the next president but they can indicate how well a candidate might do going forward unlike primaries caucuses a run by the parties themselves voters meet in small gatherings in churches and town halls rather than in official polling places the focus in iowa is on the face to face of the state is predominantly white and gray and critics say it is not representative of the wider voting population the iowa caucuses are being held in more than 1600 locations and the record turnout is expected it's good it's go to john hendren and now we joins us from there so john what can we expect tonight. well you might ask why i'm standing in a basketball arena this is actually one of more than 1600 caucus sites around the state of iowa as it happens this is the biggest one more than a 1000 people are expected to be gathering here behind me and they will form in groups listening to people pitch the case for their

is not 1st because it's important it's important because it's 1st iowa has been the 1st in the nation contest since 1972 that's because its caucus process is drawn out and complicated presidential campaigns can spark into life here or be extinguished that gives people incredible power one report suggests voters in iowa have 20 times more influence than almost any other state the weight and meaning of iowa is really supplied by our national media establishment this is the 1st time they have hard results from actual voters and so if you just as an opportunity to essentially understand where these candidates are in the race iowa is predominately white it's mainly rudel has few big industries essentially it doesn't look a lot like the rest of america there are plenty who would like to see the 1st contest held in the state this more representative of america as a whole but that's simply not going to happen if somewhere were to move its primary or its caucuses in iowa would move it so and because the state law says it always has to be flushed. the people here insist they take the responsibi

well indeed yes but to again bernie sanders basically are neck and neck off to the iowa primary there's has no fool result has been announced as yet but both candidates have claimed victory in that particular primary and certainly it has acted as a form of slingshot to as it normally does increasing their chances in the new hampshire primary certainly. ratings have improved markedly since he did so strongly in the iowa caucus bernie sanders has been consistently topping the polls the greatest loose of course in that iowa vote was joe biden who's dropped away back in the polling because of his very poor showing there and 4 days after the iowa caucuses mike this still of disarray and uncertainty about the final result however it's resolved how much damage has this stunt to the democratic party . well many would contend that it's been exceedingly damaging to the democratic party certainly president trump has made hay out of the fact that there was such chaos at the iowa caucus after months of preparation saying that if democrats can run a vote how can they possibly run a country so certain

is not 1st because it's important it's important because it's 1st iowa has been the 1st in the nation contest since 1972 that's because it's caucus process is drawn out and complicated presidential campaigns can spark into life here or be extinguished that gives people incredible power one report suggests voters in iowa have 20 times more influence than almost any other state they wait and meaning of iowa is really supplied by our national media establishment this is the 1st time they have hard results from actual voters and so it's just as an opportunity to essentially understand where these candidates are in the race iowa is predominately white it's mainly rudel as few big industries essentially it doesn't look a lot like the rest of america there are plenty who would like to see the 1st contest held in the state this more representative of america as a whole but that's simply not going to happen if somewhere were to move its primary or its caucuses in iowa would move it so and because the state law says it always has to be flushed. the people here insist that they take their respon

yes i do i think iowa number one with the debacle that occurred with their caucuses i think that the whole party pretty much agrees that we're not going to depend on iowa to tell us who is going to be our front runner new hampshire though i think still has some sort of gravitas in terms of. momentum moving into super tuesday which is really the 1st real big date when you have a bunch of primaries and really important states with a whole lot of delegates we're talking about north carolina virginia and alabama and arkansas so those are that's the real important time but i think that you know iowa was certainly lost that status and the party looks very different in new hampshire now so i would say that they both lost a certain amount of status but they do give a little bit of momentum moving forward our correspondent was telling me earlier that as far as she can tell from people she's spoken to new hampshire the main goal is simply to find somebody who is going to be able to defeat donald trump do you think that there's a risk that the important issues that exist in america the moment w

presidential nomination was told that he won the iowa caucuses 16 days after the caucuses and did so this is not like a problem unique to democrats i can tell you know of anything else that that's going on that scene trumps acquittal in the impeachment trial we don't want to get into that but it's just it's something they could have done without. obviously so. new hampshire is obviously vital to each of the people the 4 top ones that you named kind of take them in reverse order yes joe biden needs to show that he really can compete in states that aren't reliant on minority voters south carolina has a high percentage of black voters for example iowa didn't new hampshire most definitely does not again to promote a perspective in 1908 george h.w. bush the older president bush finished 3rd he was the incumbent vice president he finished 3rd in the iowa caucuses and of course he went on to not just get the nomination but win the presidency so people are kind of writing off biden i think a little too soon warren is from the neighboring state of new hampshire massachusetts but again she and

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the next step in this process new full results from iowa no problem each candidate is telling everyone what a huge success they've been even if it looks like they've struggled where her. and her her here are it's good to hear her really doing well. in des moines an apology from the democratic party chairman that the system to count votes that the caucuses failed so spectacularly but he insists the results no being published can be trusted we have been working day and night to make sure that these results are accurate the one thing i will say is that the underlying data the raw data is secure it was always secure conspiracy theorists online are suggesting the result is being manipulated that's not something bernie sanders is buying into you know there's no excuse for not having results but it's like oh but that doesn't mean to say that the votes that the told was like come in will be an awkward and i think that's an unfair i think to try to get the youngest candidate in the race former mayor people to do. is performing ahead of predictions and expectations but he's already looking forwa

particularly given the who will happens in iowa how do you think that's him across that part see what will come through this. i think right now the democratic party is pretty and me mick we're starting to see mike bloomberg being the person who's kind of floating the democratic party right now with the amount of ads and everything that he's been spending i think i saw a statistic the other day that he's spending $38.00 almost every 2nd which is really breathing life into the party into the platform of the d.n.c. currently who just don't seem to be able to stay afloat iowa was a huge disaster for democrats i'm really hoping that because new hampshire is an actual vote where there are ballots and there is a ballot box that things will change that and that the party can write its course but as of right now they're very anemic they are struggling and they really need something to breathe life back into this primary contest and his money will come brees life back into it it seems like right now you know the way that michael bloomberg is going yes i do think there needs to be some more exci

to pick a democratic presidential nominee has gone off to a confusing start after results from the iowa caucuses words in late so local party officials blame in consistencies for the setback alan fischer reports from jim warren was it was a night of frustration and questions in iowa after people cast their votes in the democratic caucuses the process of adding them up and sending them to headquarters was plagued with technical issues it created a terrible image as the country watched the 1st real contests that the 2020 election tun into a farce meeting it was the candidates decided to claim victory and move on leaving iowa and its problems behind pending sanders is looking like the eventual winner of the self described democratic socialist finish tonight or 2nd 4 years ago now he believes he's taken a big step to securing the democratic nomination to date more the beginning of the end donald trump was here mose dangerous president in modern american history the biggest loser of the night is shaping up to be former vice president joe biden for a man who campaigned on electability it's no

the race for the white house officially begins on monday in the state of iowa that some democrats will hold the 1st to begin the process of deciding who will eventually challenge donald and november alan fischer reports from iowa. they have been rallies and debates. that have been t.v. ads and looks over and there has been the traditional shaking of hands and kissing of babies but no the politicians are almost done the people will soon have their see the 1st presidential contest of 2028 the caucuses in iowa donald trump will win on the republican side that's a certainty the big story will be the democrats there have been 28 democratic presidential candidates that are 11 still left in the race many of them would have thought they'd spend the summer campaigning across the country instead their campaigns will end here in the snows of america's midwest the conversations largely been dominated by discussions of joe biden senator bernie sanders senator warner and mayor people who did it and i think those are the 4 candidates that everyone is going to be watching but this state is known for p

trump and his folks in terms of what they have done to put the process in jeopardy or it happened in iowa in the last 72 hours let's bring it back to the democrats and this this moment is being characterized as one which the party has to choose which direction it's going to go in order to beat donald trump in november are they going to stick with their kind of establishment moderate figure biden esque if you like or are they going to depart and go to something more radical more progressive more and younger it must be said what what do you think this these iowa results as she show about where the democratic party sits at the moment. but what it shows us is a wide open race bernie sanders has done very well people that it has done well but will have to prove himself in new hampshire and in south carolina elizabeth warren has done well enough to be in the forefront and joe biden has sunk to 4th place we also should mention i mean close but sharp who is coming out of the senate from a nose for minnesota who got 13 percent of the vote but what it means beyond that look if we have a serious att

in the ember ellen fisher reports from iowa. there have been rallies and debates. there have been t.v. ads and lots of them and has been the traditional shaking of hands and kissing of babies but no the politicians are almost done the people will soon have their see the 1st presidential contests of 2020 the caucuses in iowa donald trump all win on the republican side that's a certainty the big story will be the democrats there have been 28 democratic presidential candidates that are 11 still left in the race many of them would have thought they'd spend the summer campaigning across the country instead their campaigns will end here in the snows of america's midwest the conversations largely been dominated by discussions of joe biden senator bernie sanders senator warner and mayor people who did it and i think those are the 4 candidates that everyone is going to be watching but this state is known for producing surprises famously a little known senator called barack obama won in 2008 and went on to the white house other long short

we ook a gut punch in iowa. william brangham: while on the campaign trail in new hampshire, biden addressed his weak performance in iowa. but biden also didn't hesitate to point out the weaknesses of his opponents, slamming sanders for self-identifying as a democratic socialist. former vice president joseph biden: eve democrat in america up and down the ballot will have fo carry the label senator sanders has choshimself. william brangham: biden also hit buttigieg on his lack of experience. former vice president joseph biden: for this party to s nominate someone who'ver held an office higher than mayor of a town of 100,000 people in indiana. [applause] former vice president joseph biden: i do believit's a risk. william brangham: in new hampshire, billionaireall activist tom steyer pointed out ttigieg's struggle to win over black voters. tom steyer: i can put together the kind of diverse coalition that we need to have to beat trump. and that's something, if yout looke people who are running fopresident, there are

it, dnc chair tom perez ys he wants iowa democrats to do a recanvass. can yo explain, wat does that actually mean, and how much does it matter? >> a recanvasss not a recount. a recount is a counting of individual votes. what the chaheirman of democratic party wants to do following all the frustration about the iowa oresults is back and look at the maps, look at the data that was reported from different prencts, and retabulate those forms rather than going t count each individual vote. >> braham: so i guess we'll wait the see what the results of that are, but what does this do for democratic party unity? we know this is not all the dnc's fault, what happened in iowa, but this has got to be disruptive for the internal ty.hanism of the par >> there is a real push in the democratic party based on mysa convons with many campaigns to move more toward a primary-only system in th, e futuat there are so many problems when it comes to caucuses and how it's done, how it's arranged, how results are collected, that in the future, you could see the democratic party n

yes in fact bernie sanders today calling for a recount in some of those precincts in iowa where he did place a close close 2nd behind south bend indiana mayor pete who to judge but here in new hampshire he has a really strong base of support he's leading in the polls he is from vermont which is a neighboring state and back in 2016 he actually won the primary beating the party favorite hillary clinton by 20 percent. so he is expected to do well here but people are judges really the candidate to watch after his stronger than expected finish in iowa where he bested sanders by less than a percentage points he is seen as having a mental end to a lot of campaign events around the state here where people are talking aloud about who to judge and also another senator amy klobuchar shah who we spent trailing in the polls but did better than expected and i was and had a really strong debate performance here in new hampshire on trying since then she's been able to raise 3000000 dollars just over the weekend so she's another one that people are talking about what we're really seeing here is a race

nevada including 1000000000 as mike bloomberg until mistaya out official reports now from iowa. there have been rallies and debates. there have been t.v. ads and lots of them and there has been the traditional shaking of hands and kissing of babies but no the politicians are almost done the people will soon have their see the 1st presidential contests of 2020 the caucuses in iowa donald trump all win on the republican side that's a certainty the big story will be the democrats there have been 28 democratic presidential candidates there are 11 still left in the race many of them would have thought they'd spend the summer campaigning across the country instead their campaigns will end here in the snows of america's midwest the conversations largely been dominated by discussions of. senator bernie sanders senator warren and mayor people who did it and i think those are the 4 candidates that everyone is going to be watching but this state is known for producing surprises famously a little known senator called barack obama won in 2008 and went on to the white house other long shorts

three tickets out of iowa. now everybody comes out of iowa. there was no winngno a loss of confidence. all of that energy, all of that idealism poured in. but the other thing, judy, you cannot ignore, nly 170,000 people showed up. there were 240,000 in the years of barack obama. democrats are not energized in turnout numbers. >> woodruff: you say no winnowing and yesterday joe biden's camp seems to be worried. they've reseahuffled dership, as you heard lisa reporting, and pete buttieg and bernie nders seem to have gotten a lift. >> for sure, but i think the resus in iowa guarantees tht we'll have a lng battle that miael bloomberg decided to double his investment. tom steyer released an ad today directly going after buttigieg about to get a lot more brutal. and i do think sanders is now the front-runner. and buttigieg has the advantage of having run a good operadoon. thubts people had about his age, well, campaigns matter. if you run aood campaign, that says, well, maybe he's experienced ough to do this job. biden did not run a go campaign. wha

there's ne r been fourckets out of iowa. this is not a good showing. now, mabe it wilhange, and this is all tentative, as you noted, the 62%. maybe he does better in rural areas, but it's not very good news for biden. this doesn't give him the momentum that he needs to raise desperately needed money to stay in this race. >> woodruff: and elizabeth warren? >> i think this halts her slide. she had peakedt one point, dom then she tookhits debates, and so her campaign was really trying to get some momentum again. so third place, she lives to take the argument on to new hampshire. >> woodruff: and just in a few aycond, i heard youou do think this may with the end of the caucuses in iowa? >> yes. i think the criticism all over good way to do this.isnot a they should go to a primary system. i expect there to be a big discussion nationally in the democratic national committee, d i think there will be discussion in iowa, as well, about whether this state shouldn't, in fact, go to a primary like most states. >> woodruff: david yepsen, thank you very much. >> tha

the next step in this process results from iowa no problem. each candidate is telling everyone what a huge success they've been even if it looks like they've struggled where. is. he going to. really be going well. in des moines an apology from the democratic party chairman that the system to count votes at the caucuses failed so spectacularly but he insists the results no being published can be trusted we have been working day and night to make sure that these results are accurate the one thing i will say is that the underlying data the raw data is secure it was always secure conspiracy theorists online are suggesting the result is being manipulated that's not something bernie sanders is buying into you know there's no excuse for not having results but it's like but that doesn't mean to say but the votes at the polls like comment will be adequate and i think that's an unfair i think to try to get the youngest candidate in the race former mayor people to judge is performing ahead of predictions and expectations but he's already looking forward

voters here are focused on what is going on in iowa. but how has that affecd what is going on. >> what is most surg to m about this caucus is that there really hasn't been a moment since its 2018 elction that there was any letdown. the intensity has still been there amon voters. and you would think okay, i'm they won't have much of a crowd. >> they still draw a crowd. people ae still interested in hearing from these candidates an still evaluating whether therty f ge that gut feeling that this is the person i want to goh. wit and to be the nominee of the party. because remember, al gore, johnc kerry, baobama, hillary clinton, they all won iowa and they all became the ninee of the democratic party. >> and because there is so much other redengs-- retentions, how much of the momentum and ingshot affect you get out of iowa, is that going to afcted. >> inthere are multiple winers or this is really, really close, there is snot the big winner, that could mpen it a little bit and of course we have had impeachment and the state of the union which

presidential election officially begins on monday in the state of iowa still a wide field of democratic candidates vying to take on president donald trump in november the original number of candidates was 28 now it's down to 11 looting billionaires mike bloomberg and tom steyer official reports from iowa. there have been rallies and debates. there have been t.v. ads and lots of them and there has been the traditional shaking of hands and kissing of babies but no the politicians are almost done the people will soon have their see the 1st presidential contests of 2020 the caucuses in iowa donald trump all win on the republican side that's a certainty the big story will be the democrats there have been 28 democratic presidential candidates that are 11 still left in the race many of them would have thought they'd spend the summer campaigning across the country instead their campaigns will end here in the snows of america's midwest the conversations largely been dominated by discussions of. senator bernie sanders senator warren and mayor people who did it and i think those are the 4 candidat

the 1st openly gay presidential hopeful well bernie sanders was only 0 point one percent behind in iowa the 78 year old has strong grassroots support from the left ahead of this debate he attacked rivals for taking support from wealthy donors. when reading some headlines from newspapers about pete would you. be bored a jerk most exclusive billionaire donors of any democrat votes that was from forbes the hill big board a judge tops billionaire donor list while senator elizabeth warren who's also from the left of the posse finished said in iowa she has been struggling to shake off criticism about how to fund medicare for all plan and also seeking to recover from the slump is former vice president joe biden who finished 4th and iowa but he is seen by many senior democrats as the person who could be donald trump and. well let's dig into this with lincoln met so he's a us political analyst and also an associate with sap scholar at columbia university and he joins us live now from cooperstown in new york so i think in this debate is underway right now and will be covering all of the details o

campaigning in las vegas ahead of a 3rd nominating contest next weekend and often the chaos of the iowa caucus results pressure is on nevada to do better and also the fast test of candidates appeal in a state with a more diverse population well let's figure out joins us live from washington d.c. she had been talking about this very different demographic in nevada very different from the fast track states where we've seen primaries so how do we expect this to play out here. aside about diversity is the ballots that are being issued to those voting in the primaries come in 3 languages english spanish and tiger log the philippine national language that's about a 30 percent latino population here 9 percent african-american or an 8 percent asian american that might help explain some of the figures we're looking out in the 1st poll we've had for ages from from nevada but the soul is in the lead 25 percent he has a really strong latino base in nevada and now actually by the way that all that lead to the house right now does that is reflected in the national polls are going to last national pol

they had trouble with them in iowa. what does itik look in nevada? >> well, i was a low bar to get over, right, in nvada, and, so, they are trying to do that and they are obviously worried,us judy, beof the optics of what happened in iowa, the fact that they were going to use essentially the same technology which they now discarded, ey're trying to simplify everything, and the state party here may be the best inhe country. they're that talented. but it's a caucus. things are going to go wrong, and yothrow in the ply that they're doing early voting this time, judy, that starts saturday re, for four days, and those votes have to be properly placed in the right precincts so they get the right viability numbers on caucu day, there are a lot of crossed fingers down at mocratic party headquarters. >> woodruff: it sounds really simple to me. i'm sre it going to be -- i'm sure it will all go down smoothly. we shall see.ra jon ston, thelisha eaddy, lauren chooljian, so good to have all of you. thank you. >> thanks, judy. >> woodruff: every day, millions os am

the next step in this process through results from iowa new problem. each candidate is telling everyone what a huge success they've been even if it looks like they've struggled where it. is a good. thing going to. really be going well. in des moines an apology from the democratic party chairman that the system to count votes at the caucuses failed so spectacularly but he insists the results no being published can be trusted we have been working day and night to make sure that these results are accurate the one thing i will say is that the underlying data the raw data is secure it was always secure conspiracy theorists online are suggesting the result is being manipulated that's not something bernie sanders is buying into you know there's no excuse for not having results but it's like but that doesn't mean to say but the votes at the polls like comment will be adequate and i think that's an unfair i think to try to get the youngest candidate in the race former mayor people to judge is performing ahead of predictions and expectations but he's already loo

political repoer david yepsen, he's host of the "iowa press" on iowa pbs. david, thank you very much for joining us. we don't have official numbers we won't have official numbers from the iowa democratic party for some time, but we are getting indications through the 'associated press vote cast survey of iowa voters which has been goiang on for sixys before the contests. amy, you've been looking at the numbers, what have you been seeing? >> what we're looking at is kelp combative break down, who is showing up, are tere nw voters, what percent of the electorate howre they dividing themselves. what we have seen and -- from the vest ca tst amoe very liberal voters, for example, i don't know if we're table to bring that up. but among very liberal voters, bernie sanders doing very well as you you can see, he and elizabeth warren accounting for about th% of all oe people who define themselves as very liberal l t89 now you ge to the liberal voters once again, it's sanders and warren who are leading the way. but rith buttigiegaking in to the top three here, and thi

>> iowa is a low bar to get over in nevada. so they are trying to do that, andhey are obviously worried, because of the optics of what happened intowa, the fact t they were going to essentially use the samey, technol which they have discarded. they are trying to simplify everything and the state barty may be tt in the country. they are that talented. but it is a caucus, things are going to go wrong. throw i the play they are doing, early voting this time its starts saturday for four days, and those votes hav to be properly placed in the right precincts so they get the right viability nuers on caucus day, there are lots of crossed fingers in democratic party headquarters. judy: sounds releasable to me. i'm sure it is goingo be, i'm sure it will go down smoothly. we shall see. so good to have all of you. thank you. >> thanks, judy. ♪ judy: every day, millions of americans cross one of the 47,000 bridges in the country in need of repair. many are made of concrete, onein of the mosemand materials on earth, second only to water. s

w much does what happen in iowa factor into their thinking? lisa: the lastay two here in new hampshire, i'm feeling a collective shrug to what happened in iowa. new hampshire voters don't seem to careoo much. though, i will say if you look a the polls, it does seem like the two leaders bernie sanders and pete buttigieg steam have gone up by a few points here in new hampshire. ou talk to voters they're more tune into what's happening and a lot is happening by newshour's count some 64 ndidate events have happened in this state since the iowa caucusesa great deal of attention on them. and i went to peelt buttigi t and talk voters as they were coming out. they do seem to have more enthusiasm for him than a month ago. arenas that we're seing from bernie sanders. so a lot to watch. >> tt soundst even higher stakes for this debate that's coming up tonight with the candheates. low campaigns looking at this? -- how are the campaigns looking at this? lisa: seven candidates on stage. the five that received one del grat iowa and tom steyer and andrew yang

plus, on the ground in iowa. where a single weekend is all that separatesemocratic caucus goers from the first contest of the primary season >> i undecided and now that it's coming down to the wire, i would like to see that someone could persuade me to have a clear cut decision. udy: and david brooks and rutus mare here to analyze the daysore iowa democrats make al their choice.ha all and more on tonight's "pbs newshour." ♪ announcer: mor tundingth for "pbs newshour" has been provided by -- >> consumer cellular offers no-contract consumer plans. our u.s. based customer service team is here to find a plan that fits you. go to consumer cellular.it have for more. >> bnsf railway. american cruiselines.ll cote. if i dellty investments. -- fidelity invtments. >> the johnnd s.ames l. knight foundation. a morekf.org. announcer: andith the ongoing support of these institutions. and friends of the newshour. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station

house goes to nevada where democrats are trying to avoid the same mistakes that through the books in iowa into office. and frustration for ferrari on the final day of testing in barcelona these are the details in about 25 minutes. hello winter seems to have set in for the eastern med and particularly for turkey this circulation of clavicles means it's all spreads across the levant and once more for lebanon and for syria and iraq you've either got rain or snow depending on the height above sea level of course to the size of that we've got the onshore wind keeping things a bit cool trees from sunny 11 degrees for example and every now again you get a shark going all way further south that's not the case on saturday but if you're in northern iraq it's not like good same for northern syria it doesn't improve much on sunday but the detail differences differences will allow more sunshine through and actually allow the rain to come back more into north egypt colwyn they're coming to libya for example and that in hans is what's been happening over the last few weeks there in taksim here makes it

nowhere near the level of the melt down in on the prairie in iowa here we have had some reports of a lack of volunteers showing up at different polling places. one journalists that we've been in touch with saw hundreds of people waiting to register for the caucuses because no one had bothered to show up with the registration forms but that doesn't seem to be the rule and there's no tech now logical technological breakdown as there was in the state of iowa so for what i can tell you from what i've seen here things seem to have gone quite well there's some action as people make their arguments but this is democracy in the wrong and how has president trump been reacting to the democratic race. well try to preempt or be a bit of a spoiler because he's been hanging out around los vegas for the last couple of days to get a big rally yesterday with his that his basically trying to draw attention to himself and away from the democratic candidates is also a very interesting bit of news that came out yesterday it emerged earlier this week that the u.s. intelligence community had briefed congre

and the chair of the democratic national committee has called for a review of the results of the iowa caucuses with all the votes finally counted people to judge his narrative defeated bernie sanders in the 1st contest between the democratic hopefuls vying to take on president trump in november the committee says a review is needed to restore public confidence after technical glitches in its mobile app slowed down the whole reporting exercise let's speak now to. the author of the trump presidency journalism and democracy is an associate professor at lancaster university in the u.k. nice to talk to you again let's start with the democratic party then are they in state of disarray as a consequence of this rather embarrassing scenario that we witnessed in iowa. you know to move forward from from iowa they almost need to forget that it even happened you know there are some on the far left thinking that bernie sanders really won the day as the democratic socialist but that doesn't go too well for the for the hardcore democrats who want there to be more of a central figure somebody who's ol