Ill see you tomorrow. Have a good night, or a good morning. See ya later. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Were live in New Hampshire, still, where the countdown has begun to tuesdays first in the nation primary, right here in New Hampshire. We just finished two nights of town halls, with the democrats vying to run against President Trump. But looming over all of this, the final batch of votes in iowa. 100 of precincts are reporting. And Pete Buttigieg holds a 1 0. 1 lead over Bernie Sanders. Elizabeth warren and joe biden are in third and fourth place. Then Amy Klobuchar and tom steyer. The candidates have 41 hours to call for a recanvas. The dnc chair is calling for throwing the race into turmoil. Bernie sanders speaking for an hour tonight, saying that the Democratic Party of iowa his words not mine screwed up the counting process. But said he wants to move on to New Hampshire. And Pete Buttigieg reacting to the iowa results live on the air, calling the news fantastic and saying nothing can take away from what happened on monday. Amy klobuchar telling me, in the wake of the impeachment trial, voters are going to be the jurors in the election. And warning again, these are her words, democrats better not screw this up. Deval patrick praising romney for voting his conscience in the impeachment. And all this comes on the ba backdrop of a freshly acquitted trump. Scoresettling, grievances and blatant attacks on anybody who dare cost him in more than an hour of stream of consciousness ranting. And what he said is really, really ugly. This is what a celebration sounds like to trump, the president of the United States. Listen to this. It was evil, corrupt, it was dirty cops. It was leakers and liars, dirty cops. Bad people. It was all bullshit. We were running against some very, very bad and evil people. All of these horrible, dirty cops. Remember, he said the statement, which is a mob statement. Dont call me, ill call you. Theyre vicious and mean. Vicious. These people are vicious. Vicious, horrible person. Horrible person. These are vicious people. Theyre vicious as hell. These people have gone stonecold crazy. The other side and the bad ones, the leakers, the liars, the dirty cops, two lowlives. When i fired that sleaze bag, all hell broke out. They were ratting on each other. They were running for the hills. These are the crookedest, most dishonest, dirtiest people ive ever seen. It was the top scum. These are all dirty people. A phony, rotten deal, by some very evil and sick people. That wasnt tony soprano. That was the president of the United States. Have you ever heard a president talk that way out in the open, at an official white house event . Insults, profanity, language right out of a gangster movie, campai complaining about dirty cops, lowlives, people ratting each other out. All that in the east room, on live tv. Really in front of the world, but standing in front of a room of lawmakers, family members and trump defenders. Leaping to their feet again and again to applaud there you go. In a dear leader moment this president seems to love. But its not just his language, though that is bad enough. This is about settling scores, keeping scores. A literal list of friends of enemies to be jeered. At least Richard Nixon tried to keep his enemies list under wraps. And speaking of previous president s, i want you to compare what we heard today, what you heard just moments ago, to another president who was impeached. And he said he was humbled by that experience. I want to say, again, to the american people, how profound l sorry i am for what i said and did, to trigger these events, and the great burden they have imposed on the congress and on the american people. I also am humbled and grateful for the support and prayers i have received from millions of americans over this past year. We are a long way off from that, arent we . Anybody who expected soulsearching or humility from President Trump was bound to be disappointed. Instead, he is clearly steaming over mitt romneys voice of conscience, in his powerful speech on the senate floor. My faith is at the heart of who i am. I take an oath before god as enormously consequential. I knew that being tasked with the president of my own party would be the most difficult decision i ever faced. And i was not wrong. And heres how the president responded, at all places, at the National Prayer breakfast. I dont like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. More do i like people who say, i pray for you, when they know thats not so. So, let me remind you, that was at a Prayer Breakfast. A Prayer Breakfast. Turn the other cheek, humility, values, christians. People of faith, do unto others. This president apparently thinks that the appropriate venue, that thats the appropriate venue to question the faith the faith of mitt romney. To question the faith of nancy pelosi. Heres how the speaker responded today. He can say whatever he wants. But i do pray for him and i do so sincerely and without anguish. To recap. The president of the United States, celebrating his impeachment acquittal, attacking his enemies for their faith. Hurtling insults at others, calling them evil, lowlives and sleaze bag. Those were his words, straight from the white house. What a celebration. Just imagine what will happen when this race really heats up. A lot to get to tonight. Lets bring in abby phillip, political analyst, mark preston, Kirsten Powers, and marc mckinnon. Hello, everyone. Hello. The words of your president. The words at a Prayer Breakfast. What do you think, Mark Mckinnon . Well, the thing that strikes me is strong supporters of donald trump are used to this kind of tone, this anger, this intimidation, when hes down. But this is new when hes up. At a Prayer Breakfast, mocking somebodys faith at a Prayer Breakfast. If this is the attitude that he adopts when hes on top, thats going to be a different thing for people to see. Now, i dont think his base is going anywhere. But for a lot of americans to say, you cant even have a note of humility at a prayer breakfa breakfast, on a day when youve been acquitted and be generous to the people in the room, to acknowledge that you can he couldnt even acknowledge at the Prayer Breakfast, you should love your enemies. I dont. Thats very nonchristian message at a Prayer Breakfast. How ironic can you be . How about this . Things come in threes. When youre a journalist, three things come together, get a story. People die, three things come together. Three people die. They come in threes. Donald trump gave a state of the union that weve never seen ever, crazy, full of lies, outrageous. Then, he goes to the Prayer Breakfast and he totally flips that on its head. Although people there seem to love it, that goes into question about whether their christian morals are. The Prayer Breakfast itself. And then, he goes to the white house and uses profanity. And again, i use profanity. And im very honest, i wouldnt use it at the white house or on television. He feels its okay to use profanity. And use the perch of the white house to say im going to settle scores with people. Didnt Susan Collins and john thunen say he learned his lesson. That was the punishment. What was the lesson here . Its interesting because think how you teach a child a lesson. It was a strange thing to say from the getgo. Were going to not hold him accountable, saying he didnt do anything wrong, by acquitting him, and then hes going to learn a lesson. Thats crazy. Its crazier that its donald trump. They think that would have any weight. We know about the president s behavior, right . For christians to use the excuse, democrats have been after him, people have been attacking him, how did you expect him to act . How about act like a christian . How about act like the leader of the free world. This is an argument Scott Jennings was making today or yesterday. I cant remember. My response was, bill clinton went through the exact same thing, that donald trump went through. The exact same thing. And he was incredibly contrite. When he went through the Prayer Breakfast, he said, i sinned. Its not enough for me to apologize, i have to forgive the people that im angry at. Its the polar opposite of what donald trump is doing. Arthur brooks got up and spoke before him, all about bringing people together and loving your enemies. And he got up and said, arthur, im going to have to disagree with you. Actually, you have to disagree with jesus. Thats who he is quoting. I wonder if you had asked, just a blind test for all of the republican senators, just, if we didnt have any history, and said laid out this case. One case that had a president that had an affair and an intern. And a president withheld aid from a country to do Political Research on an opponent. Which would be more problematic for you . 100 the latter. I need you to report on the president all the time. But the excuse was the people around him and the porn star. He did it because he didnt want his wife to find out about it. Bill clinton said the same thing. Its okay for donald trump to do it. Not okay for bill clinton. You cover the president all the time. Youve been standing by. What did you think when you heard him at the Prayer Breakfast at the white house . What did you learn from this . He was focused on retribution to me, at the press conference. The Prayer Breakfast was his anger and his rejection of love thy enemy. He was rejecting that in the Prayer Breakfast. By the time he got to this press conference at the white house, he was really thinking about how the people he really hates ought to pay for what they did to him. That was glaring to me. The second thing that was glaring was the audience. The republicans sitting in the audience, cabinet members. Its a case study in how political power is the most important motivating factor in washington. All of those people, at one point or another, criticized donald trump as a candidate even as president. They gave him standing ovations. Mshg m mark meadows stood up and said, were behind you 100 . These are acts of signaling to donald trump, that theyre loyal. So, that they can get what he is offering to them in return, which is onebyone, calling their names and telling them how hes going to reward them politically for their loyalty. And it is important to Pay Attention to that because this is how donald trump wields power over the Republican Party. That gets stronger and stronger as he continues to be president. And theres no going back from this. People are not going to wake up and be, okay, i dont want to, you know theres a line that i dont want to cross here. No. This is how power works. And he wields it extremely effectively. I do understand what i have spoken to people in the room. When he came up with some of the things about the Conspiracy Theory and the fbi and lisa strzok. There were people quiet and uncomfortable. Many of the same people gave him a standing ovation. Lets talk about the enemies list. Were learning theyre going to leave in the coming weeks. Trump has fumed about his presence in the nsc since he testified. His duties have been curtailed. He testifies against trump. Now, vinman is on an enemies list, as well. Not surprising, right . This is what donald trump is like. He will retaliate against people who were being honest under oath. Its saying you should not fulfill your duty and refuse to testify or lie under oath. Those are the options these people had. And hes retaliating. Hes using his official power to retaliate against someone who has served this country. And just to put a point on how vindictive this is, vinman had requested a transfer himself to the Defense Department that was going to happen in a month. Trump wouldnt let him do that. He talks about leakers and liars. These people testified under threat of perjury. So, they told the truth. The people that didnt come forward, were the witnesses that he withheld. They would have been under oath. If they had told a lie, would have suffered the consequences of telling a lie. He didnt want those witnesses to come forward. Interesting. If there was a song that encapsulated a song, they played hail to the chief. An interesting song to play on a somber but celebratory occasion. Thank you. Stick around, everybody. The first primary in the nation in New Hampshire. 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Lets turn to the state of the race, with the first in the nation primary, abby phillip, Kirsten Powers and Mark Mckinnon. Sanders and buttigieg at the top. Biden third. How do you see it playing out . Im not going to make any predictions. But i think this is interesting. Bernie sanders, this is his area. He should do well there. The fact that buttigieg is so close, is meaningful. Assuming this is right and we dont know for sure. It doesnt look great for biden. The fact that buttigieg is four points within sanders is meaningful. You have a democratic socialist, a selfdeclared democratic socialist and the mayor of a small town. What does it say about who can beat donald trump . Its two different visions of who can beat donald trump. This is a classic point in the campaign where the classic Haley Barbour from mississippi used to say, good gets better and bad gets worse. Good is better for Pete Buttigieg but bad for biden. The person most likely to beat trump is a person most unlike him. Thats what weve seen over history. Carter to nixon, obama to bush. What are the character, donald trump, lay it on a black board. And we went through the leading democratic candidates. And looked at it. Which is the most opposite of donald trump. It was almost unanimous, Pete Buttigieg was the most different from donald trump. So, if history plays out, and hes a nominee, hes the most unlike trump. I can see how he goes after biden and sanders. Hes not used to a Pete Buttigieg. We know how he went against Elizabeth Warren, calling her the name, what have you. Elizabeth warren is at 13 in that poll. What does she have to do to brir bring that number up in New Hampshire . Its an interesting question. You would think that she has an advantage that Bernie Sanders has in the state. Once you lose momentum, its like a ball moving downhill. Its hard to stop that slide. She needs a gamechanging moment for her. I dont know if theres enough time between now for that to happen. She suffers from Bernie Sanders doing well. The people that might have been with warren has a base of support. Its problematic. I think warren suffers as Pete Buttigieg gains, as well. These categories for voters is not as line yaar as we think th are. People are crossing lines all the time. Thats one of the reasons why this is going to be really tough for her. I dont know how she creates a moment in just a few short days. Shes just got to hold on past New Hampshire, frankly, and try to make a move in one of the later primaries. We talk about the moderates. And you refer centrist, right . And left. Iowa showed the results, a tight finish, 100 . And it was off by onetenth of 1 . We hear a difference of what buttigieg is more centrist. Sanders is more left. How long can that talk go on about left and centrist . Its going to go on. Youre going to see