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Full Video: The ABC/WMUR Democratic Debate From New Hampshire (Feb. 7)

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Seven candidates took the stage on Friday evening for the first-in-the-nation primary debate in New Hampshire. The debate was co-sponsored by ABC News and WMUR-TV along with Apple News.

Alternate Video Link: ABC News (YouTube)

ABC/WMUR New Hampshire Democratic Debate (8th Debate)
Date: Friday, February 7, 2020
Location: St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH
Sponsors: ABC News, WMUR, Apple News
Moderators: George Stephanopoulos, David Muir, Linsey Davis, Adam Sexton, Monica Hernandez

Debate Candidates

The seven candidates on stage for the New Hampshire Democratic debate:

  • Former Vice President Joe Biden
  • Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg
  • Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar
  • Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
  • Businessman Tom Steyer
  • Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren
  • Businessman Andrew Yang

Debate Moderators

The debate was hosted by a panel of five moderators for the evening consisting of several ABC News personalities along with some local correspondents from WMUR-TV in Manchester.

  • ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos
  • ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir
  • ABC News correspondent Linsey Davis
  • WMUR political director Adam Sexton
  • WMUR anchor Monica Hernandez

Follow the full 2020 Debate Schedule and 2020 Primary Schedule.

Full Video: CNN Town Hall With Sanders, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Patrick (Feb. 6, New Hampshire)

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On Thursday, Feb. 6, four Democratic candidates participated separately with CNN in a live Town Hall event broadcast from Manchester, New Hampshire. Here are the collected full videos of the event.

Watch CNN Town Halls Night 1 (Feb 5): Biden, Warren, Yang, Steyer

Thursday, February 6

Videos ordered in the order each candidate appeared on CNN.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders:

Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg:

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar:

Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick:

Watch the previous night of CNN Town Hall events with former Vice president Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Businessman Andrew Yang, and businessman Tom Steyer available here.

Full Video: CNN Town Hall With Biden, Warren, Yang, and Steyer (Feb. 5, New Hampshire)

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On Wednesday, Feb. 5, four Democratic candidates participated separately with CNN in a live Town Hall event broadcast from Manchester, New Hampshire. Here are the collected full videos of the event.

Watch CNN Town Halls Night 2 (Feb 6): Sanders, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Patrick

Wednesday, February 5

Videos ordered in the order each candidate appeared on CNN.

Former Vice President Joe Biden:

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren:

Businessman Andrew Yang:

Businessman Tom Steyer:

On Thursday, Feb. 6, there will be four more town hall events on CNN:

Thursday, February 6:
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick

Watch CNN Town Halls Night 2 (Feb 6): Sanders, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Patrick

Full Video: Final Trump Impeachment Vote in U.S. Senate Trial

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Full video of the final vote of President Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate.

Alternate Full Video Links: Fox News (YouTube), NBC News (YouTube)

Watch prior days:

Reporting on the final day of the trial from CNN:

Sen. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat facing an uphill reelection battle in 2020, said Wednesday morning he will vote to convict President Donald Trump on both articles of impeachment.

Jones was one of a handful of senators whose vote was still in question on the verdict of Trump’s impeachment trial, which will come to an end with a vote Wednesday that’s all but guaranteed to end in an acquittal.

The Senate will vote at 4 p.m. ET for each of the two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The outcome is a forgone conclusion: Senate Republicans have a 53-47 majority in the chamber, and so far no Republicans have said they will vote to remove the President from office. A two-thirds majority is required for conviction.

The final vote tally is still an open question, with a handful of senators who have not said how they are voting.

“After many sleepless nights, I have reluctantly concluded that the evidence is sufficient to convict the President for both abuse of power and obstruction of Congress,” Jones said in a statement explaining how he will vote.

 

Full Video: Iowa Democratic Party Press Conference to Release Caucus Results

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The Democratic Party of Iowa has scheduled a press conference for 5 pm ET on Tuesday to begin the release of Iowa Caucus results. A “majority” of the results will be released and then the rest of the vote will be released as the results are certified.

Report on the release of the results from Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Iowa Democratic Party has told presidential campaigns it will release more than half of Monday’s delayed caucus results at 5 p.m. ET (2200 GMT) on Tuesday.

“We have always said that we have a paper trail in this process,” Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price told campaigns on a briefing call. “We’ve always had to chase down results.”

Price said that the results would be released as they are finalized.

 

Full Video: President Trump State of the Union Address (Feb. 4, 2020)

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Full video of President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union Address from the U.S. House Chamber on February 4, 2020.

Alternate Video Links: Fox News (YouTube), CBS News (YouTube), PBS NewsHour (YouTube)

What: State of the Union

Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Time: 9 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. CT

How to watch: The 2020 SOTU address will be carried live on all broadcast and cable news channels including ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and Fox Business

Reporting from CBS News:

It will be only the second time a State of the Union address will be delivered while the Senate is holding an impeachment trial. In 1999, President Clinton made no mention of the impeachment trial during his second-to-last State of the Union on January 19. Mr. Clinton was ultimately acquitted on charges of obstruction of justice and perjury by the Senate.

The Senate is scheduled to hold the final verdict vote on the impeachment trial on Wednesday.

The State of the Union will be held a day after the Iowa caucuses this year. Mr. Trump has two Republican challengers, former Massachusetts Governor William Weld and former Congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois, but neither poses a substantial threat to the president in Iowa or nationally. The president won the Republican caucuses in Iowa Monday.

Confusion Tuesday Morning as Democrats Scramble for Iowa Caucus Results

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Report from the CBS Early Show on the delayed Iowa caucus results.

Iowa Democrats were stunned and confused Monday night as technical issues surrounding the caucus forced a stumbling start to the battle for the Democratic nomination. Officials said they were confident Sunday night that nothing would go wrong, with the state party chairman assuring that Democrats were “probably the most prepared” they had ever been for a caucus.

Major Garrett takes a close look at what went wrong and what candidates are doing to move forward.

More reporting from ABC News

First-in-the-nation Iowa was supposed to be the first indication, based on votes and not polls, of where the candidates stand in the Democratic primary horse race.

But now, after the state party “found inconsistencies in the reporting” of the results, the candidates — and the country — are still in the dark regarding how caucusgoers felt Monday night.

“[T]he integrity of our process, and the results have and always will be our top priority,” Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) Chairman Troy Price told reporters during a 2 a.m. call. “At this point, the IDP is manually verifying all precinct results … We want to emphasize that this is a recording, not a hack on intrusion. And it’s exactly why we have a paper trail and systems in place to uphold the integrity of our process.”

The results are now expected sometime Tuesday, Price said, noting it’s “taking longer than expected” to validate the data they have against the paper trail.

“We have said all along, we have these backups in place for exactly this reason. We are updating campaigns and we will continue to provide updates as they are available,” he said.

Just ten minutes before the caucuses began, Price told reporters outside the media filing center that usually, results start coming in around 9 p.m., an hour after the contest kicks off. But 9 p.m. came and went, and then 10 p.m. came and went, and, at 10:45 p.m., an update from the Iowa Democratic Party finally arrived.

Read the full story from ABCNews.com

2020 Iowa Caucus Results (Feb. 3, 2020)

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Results and analysis of the 2020 Iowa Caucuses from the Des Moines Register and other live video streams below.

Alternate Live Streams: Washington Post (YouTube), NBC News (YouTube)

Monday, February 3

Iowa Democratic Caucus
Time: Caucuses begin at 8 pm ET (7 pm CT) and last several hours
Registration: Same-day registration allowed
Where To Vote: Find Your Caucus Location
Delegates: 49 (41 pledged, 8 unpledged)
Allocation: Proportional
Threshold: 15% (A candidate must receive at least 15% to win a delegate)

Other Links: Iowa Vote Registration Check, Iowa Voter Registration

The Iowa Democratic Party has created a website called TheCaucuses.org. This site tells you everything you need to know for participating in the Iowa Democratic caucus. You must be a registered Democrat in Iowa to participate but you can register or change registration on caucus day.

Live Iowa Caucus Results

Iowa Caucus Countdown: Candidates Campaign in Final Hours

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A look across the campaign trail in Iowa from NBC News with the 2020 Iowa Caucuses set to happen on Monday, February 3. A view from the major campaigns on the ground in Iowa as this unpredictable race begins to take shape in the final hours.

Reporting on Iowa from ABC News:

The Iowa caucuses, which have been the first nominating contest in the country since 1972, marks the official start of the presidential election season – giving the Hawkeye State an outsize influence over the primary race.

This cycle, the first-in-the-nation caucuses will be held on Monday, Feb. 3 with 41 delegates up for grabs on caucus night, significantly less than delegate-rich California’s 415.

Before Monday night’s caucuses, here is what you need to know about the 2020 Iowa caucuses:

What is a caucus?
Caucuses are neighborhood gatherings or party meetings that take place all at the same time all across the state.

Iowans gather at each caucus site, either at one of the 1,678 traditional precinct caucuses across the state, or at one of the 87 “satellite caucus” locations around the world, including 60 in-state, 24 across 13 states and Washington, D.C., and three abroad.

The satellite caucuses, which take place on Monday parallel to the precinct caucuses, are designed to expand accessibility and participation in the caucus process for those who cannot make it to their assigned precinct, like shift workers, people in retirement homes and Iowans living abroad; a few are also aimed at attracting voters in underrepresented communities.

At this year’s caucuses, the Iowa Democratic Party is preparing for their biggest turnout in modern political history, expecting to surpass 2008’s record-setting turnout when more than 239,000 voters showed up to caucus.

Read the full story from ABCNews.com

Full Video: Day 10 of President Trump Impeachment Trial in U.S. Senate

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Day ten of the trial on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. The Friday vote will be pivotal in determining whether the impeachment trial can move on to a final vote, or require more days of testimony if witnesses are called into next week.

Alternate Video Link: Fox News (YouTube)

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The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump began on Tuesday, Jan. 21, after a weekslong impasse over how the Senate trial would proceed, and debate over the rules stretched nearly 13 hours.

Reporting on day ten of the trial from NBC News:

The Senate faces a pivotal vote Friday afternoon on whether to call witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, potentially raising the question of whether Chief Justice John Roberts could cast a tie-breaking vote.

In a climactic moment Thursday night, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, a key Republican swing vote on the question of whether to call ex-national security adviser John Bolton and other witnesses, said he would not support the additional testimony because, he said, while the House managers had proven their case, the charges against Trump do not meet the constitutional standard for an impeachable offense.

Read the full story from NBCNews.com

Full Video: Day 9 of President Trump Impeachment Trial in U.S. Senate

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Day nine of the trial on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020.

Alternate Video Link: Fox News (YouTube)

Watch prior days:

The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump began on Tuesday, Jan. 21, after a weekslong impasse over how the Senate trial would proceed, and debate over the rules stretched nearly 13 hours.

Reporting on day nine of the trial from The Hill:

The Senate on Thursday is set to conclude a marathon question-and-answer session as it moves toward a turning point in President Trump’s impeachment trial.

Senators are expected to reconvene at 1 p.m. after spending approximately 10 hours, including breaks, on Wednesday to ask more than 90 questions of both Trump’s legal team and House impeachment managers.

As of the end of Wednesday, senators had used roughly eight hours of the 16 total hours that the rules resolution set aside for the question-and-answer session.

Under a deal announced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), questions alternate between Republicans and Democrats.

In a break with the Senate impeachment trial so far, senators were allowed to speak on Wednesday to note that they had a question and announce if it was from multiple senators.

The questions were then passed to Chief Justice John Roberts, who read out the question and which side it was addressed to.

Roberts has asked both sides to limit their answers to five minutes, and interrupted Trump’s legal team and impeachment managers several times on Wednesday to let them know they had reached their time limit.

Wednesday’s session was chocked full of opportunities to try to read the tea leaves on which way undecided senators in both parties are leaning.

Read the full story from TheHill.com

Biden Says VP Pick Must Be “Capable of Immediately Being President”

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Former vice president Joe Biden speaking to voters in Iowa acknowledges his age and says that any potential vice presidential candidate he selects must be able to assume the presidency immediately.

Video Transcript

Joe Biden: I can think of at least eight women, at least four or five people of color that I think are totally qualified to be vice president of the United States but for me, it has to be demonstrated that, whomever I pick, is two things.

One, is capable of immediately being president because I’m an old guy, right? No no, serious. Look, I thank God and I workout, no serious, I workout every morning, I’m in good shape, knock on wood as my mother would say.

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