Cabins in crews ships as a new mystery are virus spreads now to a dozen people in the the u. S. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead. President trump acquitted and emboldened. Taking victory laps and spewing spite today. First a at the National Prayer breakfast where he seemed to question the faith of nancy pelosi and senator mitt romney and showed off the acquitted headline on the front page of usa today. And again this afternoon, showing a similar headline on the Washington Post in the east room of the white house where the president delivered a 63minute angry and rambling speech. A stream of conscious in front of a crowd. Calling democrats vicious and horrible people accusing romney of using his faith as a crutch to explain his guilty vote. The president railed against what he called dirty cops and leakers and liars. He claimed the witch hunt sta started from the time he ae announced his campaign. It was to say the least, not exactly an effort to heal
Right now, a lot of the u. S. Havent responded. Thank you. Government about the incident. President trump taking aim at officials raising very little West Virginia senator joe information so far. On the confirming there are multiple american casualties manchin whos against acquittal in the impeachment trial. Both killed and wounded. He witnesses in the impeachment how many, they have not said. What we do know is that in hearings Gordon Sondland both afghanistan, eastern province, were removed from the post. According to the new york times, the special forces were helping Afghan Military personnel clearing an area. Kevin is at the white house with the latest. Evening. Both were fired upon. This happened in washington, you can have a job and the assignment can and or you can spokesman said in a statement that both afghanistan and u. S. Personnel were engaged in direct move on to another position and government. Firing and they are assessing the situation. That is pretty fair here but the
Bernie sanders and Pete Buttigieg are in a virtual tie after iowa. And joe biden is eager to improve on his very disappointing fourthplace standing in iowa, and he calls a it a gut punch to the campaign. And Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar are hoping to secure a path forward. All of them are feeling urgency to feel they can defeat President Trump after the impeachment trial ended nan acquittal. We will get the clues of the outcome soon, and we will reveal the first exit poll information in about an hour from now, but first, we go to jake tapper who has more. Thank you, wolf. After the iowa mess, Many Democrats are hoping that the results out of New Hampshire will be clear cut. The correspondents are covering it all and across key locations in the granite street, and polling places and campaign headquarters. First, lets check in with the camps of sanders and biden. Ryan, you are covering Bernie Sanders headquarters and you spoke with Bernie Sanders about an hour ago . Yes, and no dou
There. Joining us coordinators jessica dean and ryan nobles. Lets begin with you voters focusing on mayor Pete Buttigieg and joe biden ahead of a big day. No doubt about, that poppy. Particularly the interesting part of the turn in Bernie Sanders turn in manchester and New Hampshire in general has been that focus on Pete Buttigieg. For the most part sanders i dont want to say ignored but really didnt pay that much attention to buttigieg at least publicly but the results in iowa certainly changed that. Its pretty clear from all the polling were seeing leading up to tomorrow night that buttigieg is sanders close competitor and has a realistic shot at winning here. Sanders also has found a very specific way to distinguish himself from the former Mayors Campaign and that is their donor base. Sanders has repeatedly gone after the fact that buttigieg has a lot of wealthy donors to his campaign and that Sanders Campaign has virtually no wealthy donors. Its all done by a grassroots online army
Session of congress. On the right, that would be the iowa state capitol, where we are following the fallout from last nights caucuses. Brian williams here at our election headquarters in new york, with our special coverage. At my side again tonight, rachel maddow. Rachel . The big headline out of iowa tonight, at last, is that Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders are leading in the preliminary returns out of iowa. I would usually call these the early returns, but since they arrived a day after the caucuses, the terminology here has to be more awkward. With 62 of precincts reporting, again, this is last nights vote, buttigieg leads with 27 of the delegates earned. Sanders closely behind at 25. Sanders was favored in the polls coming into the caucuses. The big showing by Pete Buttigieg is more of a surprise, and his campaign, of course, is doing everything they can to turn that surprise finish into momentum into New Hampshire, which, lets not forget, holds their own primary a week from toni