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Opinion. she said in her very first interview days after roe that she believed abortion ought to be legal right through the first trimester of pregnancy and not beyond that, and she repeated that as you mentioned, i was with her at the end of her life. she repeated that at the end of her life. she actually did have an opinion on this. if, of course, the supreme court does away with the viability threshold, it isnt then that the law of the land goes from viability to 15 weeks as mississippi has i...

And the first round voters can declare the first choice candidate. in the final round, the voters are allowed to switch the support if their first choice candidate does not arrive at at least 15% in the caucus. it is called the viability threshold, but 15% is the percentage to get to. we will compare both rounds to see how the vote changed and how that may have helped the ultimate winner of that individual caucus. now, in the end, the winning candidate is the one who gets the biggest share of io...

Visits to this state. biden reaching out to a lot of voters on the ground. voters say despite the poll numbers, some of their struggles, neither say they are worried about them. >> i never ride the polls. they go up and down. the only poll that matters is on election day. >> if youve been around long enough you still have over 65% of the people in iowa have not made up their mind. you still have them saying the single most important thing they need in the next nominee is someone who can beat don...

Part of the pie than conservatives, theyre pretty much equal. if he holds this number, he will be competitive to the end. >> tell us another secret. >> okay. why iowa may not be telling. look at this. this is the share of voters that are white. african-americans only makeup 3% of the pie in the iowa electorate. this is important. what we saw nationally the last two months in cnn polls was large racial divide. biden was winning with whites, 32%, but not overwhelming versus sanders, versus look at...

First, this is a little about viability, but this is iowa caucus. theres a share of delegates. this is the first year you have virtual caucuses. usually you have to vote in person. this year you can vote by teleconference or online. 90% of delegates are assigned to in person and 10% virtually. heres the interesting thing. look at this. 72% are voting in person versus 28% online or virtually. thats a big difference. this is a big difference between how many delegates are assigned and share of vot...

It out o. chris christie a huge 2014 and scott walker poised for a 2014. you have battle out for constituencies to try to beat the viability threshold and plussability threshold. there is room for a lot of them. you you mention the money. i think there is a enough money out there particularly with the rise of super pacs and potential for any outside group to come in and basically prop up a candidacy. i think you could see a couple of people go the distance and kind of emerge as the favorites in ...

>> reporter: there are about 250 people in the audience and they are all selected by linkedin. were told that they are either linkedin employees or members of linkedin who submitted questions and all those questions were chosen by linkedin itself. some of them will be asked by audience members and some of them will be asked by the ceo of linkedin who will be there with the president. >> jessica, we know that obviously mr. obama, he relied quite a bit on social media and turned to socia...