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Criminal nature. the president of the united states should be working from his own stated policy and in this case, his stated policy was to provide aid to ukraine and to help them in their anti-corruption efforts not to help them do corruption. >> right. >> and ukraine is sort of the knock on ukraine has been that it's a particularly corrupt -- it's had a particularly corrupt government since it broke off from the ussr and has struggled to be its own country in some instances wanting to be an eu country, wanting to move more into the european sphere and having that resisted both by russia n so...

Sights now that she's surged into the top tier of candidates. harris is now in second in the democratic field based on cnn's latest national poll. her 17% edges out elizabeth warren's 15% and bernie sanders' 14%. joe biden still leads by a smaller margin now at 22%. somewhat enterprise surprisurpre order holds for iowa cauc caucusgoers. before this post-debate boost, the harris campaign was mainly focusing on the primary in south carolina, which falls about three weeks after the iowa caucus in february. but now that an iowa win could be within reach, can her campaign adapt and build a ground g...

Tom foreman has the breakdown. >> reporter: when the democrats do it, there's debate, horse-trading, a real raucous caucus. but the republican caucuses all around the state are much more low key. step one, show up. any voter can take part as long as he or she is already a registered republican or willing to become one at the door. step two, listen up. after the pledge of allegiance cauc caucusgoers hear speeches from people representing the candidates. they can be from in state or out, big names or small town folks. they make a quick pitch for their pick. step three, mark it up. pieces of pape...

hour three of the candidates are taking part in a rock the caucus rally, targeting younger voters. i want you to listen in here. i think we got michele bachmann, ron paul, rick santorum, all of them looking for the last-minute vote. let's listen in -- >> -- to do business if you're a job creator because of our tax code. i'm a tax lawyer. i want to abolish the tax code and do away with it and put it in its place a pro-growth code so that you can wildly succeed with your future and with your plan. i want a future for you. i want a hope for you. and we can do that if we open up the oppo...

the payroll tax cut. it's set to expire at the end of this year. president obama called john boehner today and the white house has even put a counterdown clock on the home page of its website. it says if the house does not act, taxes on the middle class will increase starting the first of the year. let's go to the white house. our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin, is standing by with the latest on this dramatic political showdown. what is the latest? >> the latest is that the white house believes there is only one way for the nation to avoid an increase in the payroll ...