Caucuses. Why and what it means for the race to unseat President Trump. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im laura jarrett. And im christine romans. Its tuesday, february 4th, 4 00 a. M. In new york and New Hampshire. Its 3 00 a. M. In iowa. In the room where it happened nobody knows what happened. The 2020 race kicks off with a debacle for democrats. There are still no results to report in iowas first in the nation caucus. 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 its exactly why and
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. It is the eve of a historic day on capitol hill and for the United States, as a matter of fact. The impeachment trial of President Trump getting under way in earnest in the senate. And we begin with breaking news. The release of Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnells resolution for how he wants the trial to proceed including giving each side 24 hours over just two days to present their opening arguments. President trumps defense team filing a lengthy rebuttal to the charges calling the attempt to remove him from office a charade and a rigged process. Also arguing the president was well within his rights to attempt to get a foreign leader to investigate trumps political rivals. Tonight we have a trump fact check. Cnn has tallied 65 ways the president has been dishonest about ukraine and impeachment. And also ahead this hour, remembering dr. Martin luther king jr. And reflecting on the powerful words he used to fight Racial Injustice in the United Stat
4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. It is good to be with you this day. First we startfatality, this ti and the u. S. , the two victims said to be in their 60s. They were in the city of wuhan. And that brings the virus death toll now to at least 726. It is climbing so rapidly, it could not so overtake the sars outbreak of 2003. And the infection is on the rise daily, nearly 35,000 people now have the virus. The majority in china. And lets go live to china, steven jiang is following the story. Tell us more about the latest victims. Reporter george, we really dont know much about beyond what you have said. In the case of the japanese citizen, we know that he was a man in his 60s, died in wuhan. The cause of death was pneumonia. And as of now, it was listed as a lhighly suspicious case. And the American Embassy mere is not telling us much about their 60yearold because they say that it is out of respect for this persons familys privacy. But we know he this person died on thursday in a hosp
A pivotal vote in a wide open contest that could reshape the 2020 race. Largely pivoting from attacking each other and turning their fire on President Trump. Keeping with tradition, the first votes were cast overnight in three small towns taking an early lead senator Amy Klobuchar big endorsements and strong debate performances have not so far bolted her to the top. Here was her Closing Argument last night. I know we are searching in kind of an interesting time. Time and time again New Hampshire has surprised the nation by giving us incredible precedence. New hampshire has surprised the nation by not always going with the most famous person or the person with the biggest bank account. What New Hampshire has done is given us leaders. So im asking you to do that for me today. Also noteworthy in the early voting Michael Bloomberg, he was not on the ballot, but he got two write ins from democrats and a republican write in as well, a twist likely to get President Trumps attention this morni
Close second, and Amy Klobuchar surging into third. Elizabeth warren a distant fourth even though she is from neighboring massachusetts. Joe biden wasnt in New Hampshire for election results. He came in fifth. Cnn projects neither warren nor biden will even make the threshold to win delegates. Since 1968 every single democratic president ial nominee took first or second in New Hampshire. This victory here is the beginning of the end for donald trump. We are taking on billionaires and were taking on candidates funded by billionaires. Were going to South Carolina. Were going to win those states as well. I admired senator sanders when i was a high school student. I respect him greatly to this day and i congratulate him on his strong showing tonight. And thanks to you a campaign that some said shouldnt be here at all has shown that we are here to stay. And a politics of my way or the highway is a road to reeallecting donald trump. If todays washington were serving america well, a guy like