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Thrilled by the visit. >> im thrilled hes here. hes warmly greeted. i hope he stace focused the change. how does it feel to be in southern california? >> fools go s -- feels good f i know a lot of folks voted but i still feel good. my hopes are high. i think well qualify here and beat the threshold and i think were going to win in a number of states as well. >> in oakland, im leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> bernie sanders starting the day casting his ballot. judge jud judgy sanders coalition is m...

Showing up in person today. so lets just give you an example. lets just say that your first choice is pete buttigieg. your vote in the first round would go to pete buttigieg. but if he didnt make the threshold for viability, and viability means that he is at least 15% of the vote, caucus officials would look at this early vote ballot and say okay, who sur second choice, lets just say by way of example, that would be amy klobuchar. so they would take that into consideration, and calculate that in...

Warren. and 10.5% for the former vice president joe biden. nothing for pete buttigieg. nothing for tulsi gabbard. this is the first round. we have to be clear. and this is important though, this is important, looking at this number, because there is a threshold here, and joe biden is not, is not needing it, unless the early vote somehow affects that, mark. >> correct. and well see how this plays out. so it doesnt necessarily spell the end of him here, because we could see what will be known as a...

So we invite you to find another candidate whose views you can support support. >> wait, wait, wait. go ahead. >> okay. i have been asked to identify the groups that are viable. the groups that are viable are -- >> reporter: wolf to, , to expl what is going on, this is first round of the caucusing, and with 134, 135 people in the room, that means that each candidate needs at least 20 voters for them to be viable for them to reach that 15% threshold, and so far, klobuchar, biden and buttigieg hav...

Performed by another public officer. is there any application to the allegations against president trump? >> mr. chief justice, senators, thank you for that question. i think an important threshold point to make here is that were not even in the realm of exchanging official acts because theres been no proof of a quid pro quo here. were not in the realm of a situation where theres one official act being traded for another. i think that weve gone through the evidence that makes it quite clear that...

>> the senators ask of counsel for the president, is the standard for impeachment in the house a lower threshold to meet than the standard for conviction in the senate? and have the house managers met their evidentiary burden to support a vote of removal? >> mr. chief justice, senators, the standard in the house, of course, the house is not making a final determination in the structure of the constitution. impeachment is simply an accusation. as in most systems where there is simply an accusatio...

Representatives when a very low threshold of information was received that an impeachable offense left undefined may have been committed. so paraphrase president clintons very able counsel at the time, bernie nusbaum, this statute is a dagger aimed at the heart of the presidency. president clinton nonetheless signed the reauthorized measure into law, and the nation then went through the long process known as resulting in the findings by the office which i led, the office of independent counsel, ...

Violation of established law or not? this is -- i dont want to overargue -- an appropriate and weighty consideration for the senate. but especially as im trying to emphasize in the case not of a federal judge but of the president. courts consider prudential factors, and there is a huge prudential factor that this trial is occurring in an election year, when we, the people, in a matter of months, will go to the polls. in developing the common law of presidential impeachment, this threshold factor...

Lawyers calling the impeachment a perversion of the constitution democratic prosecutors meantime argue tonight that what the president is accused of doing is the worst nightmare of the framers of the constitution. our hallie jackson has late details. >> reporter: one by one, one final walk-through for the presidents defenders and for his democratic prosecutors at the capitol before they face off at the impeachment trial now a new glimpse into what the white house will argue in a new 200-page fil...

W danger, that would violate the terms of use. what weve seen from the president is baby steps on this, right? it was six weeks ago that hallie jack scond h jackson asked him to do you know the name and we need to know, who is it. it seems like hes getting closer to publicly naming him which would mark a new threshold on this. we are in entirely different territory here. think were all in for an interesting ride here in the next two, three weeks, or whenever impeachment happens. and to julias po...