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Ways that are inconsistent with the constitution, the senior abuses of power, that he could be impeached bit house of representatives, it is likely that that would fail, in the senate, and the other complication is the voters could decide that they believe he is abusing powers and ways that should provide them with incentive to remove him from office by election in 2020. but he's basically set himself up in a situation where the justice department has decided he cannot be prosecuted. and he has enough votes in the united states senate to block himself from being removed from office through imp...

135 days away. 135 days away. from the iowa caucus. and that's of course the first voting state in the democratic primary process. today, in des moines, 17 of the remaining democratic presidential candidates will all be descending on the county steak fry. this is where the candidates will come and flip steaks and grill them and address what is expected to be more than 1,000 democratic caucus-goers here. this is really the time in which these candidates begin to try to nail down who is actually going to come out and support them in the iowa caucus. there is the nbc news "the wall street journal...

Precedent how we do elections and the political process in this country. so i hope that republicans will not make this an issue. >> in this situation, you don't want them to go into looking into these allegations against joe biden because they're very similar to what -- >> they did already. they did already. >> they're similar to president trump. he asked the ukraine government to fire their prosecutor and withheld aid until they did. >> fact check. that's been fact checked. it's not true. eight times donald trump pressed the ukraine leader to dig up dirt on his political opponent. i would say...

Plan that would have allowed for virtual caucuses. cnn's dan america is here to explain this. what does this mean for the democratic primary process. >> hacking. the idea that you could use your phone to vote in a caucus or register your support in a caucus could be hacked. and that would undercut the validity of the caucus like the iowa caucus that could happen next year. there's two priorities running into each other. after 2016, there was a desire to open up caucuses to allow more people to participate, shift workers who may not be able to be there on a set time or set day, because they hav...

Became important in 1976 with jimmy carter coming from nowhere. georgia governor. he went to iowa and is vaulted into the presidency. it's gained importance since. now it's an article of faith in the democratic primary process. >> i think one of the -- you've got to factor in the difference between a caucus and a primary. one of the things that caucus demonstrates is the ability of a campaign to organize, to organize deeply in a state. you can see that with some of the campaigns. sort of figuring out a way though to expand the process and make it more accessible, you also have to take into con...